Re: module mess in -CURRENT

[Andi Kleen]

> Owens' kbuild-2.5 handled it a different way and didn't need exact
> timings. That is especially important since nanosecond time accuracy is

You may not believe it, but there are projects other than the kernel
that do use make too.

> impossible if you are handling a collection of machines doing the
> work. NTP is accurate, but not that accurate.

The patch does not actually implement nanosecond resolution, but
jiffies resolution (1ms on 2.5), which is easily reachable with NTP.

-Andi