Re: interrupt count (/proc/stat) change in 2.4.19-pre9

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:04:13PM -0500, Todd R. Eigenschink wrote:
> Is it trying to induce some sort of intentional overflow in the
> interrupt count, or is there some other big-picture change that
> requires this?  I see the comment from the BK changeset, but I still
> don't understand the purpose.

It's a brown paper bag.  By making the counts 9 digits long, the bug in 
the old code that the patch fixed was triggered.

		-ben