tickets 1511 and 1522 (HZ)

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

Tickets 1511 and 1522 refer to a compilation problem.
http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1511
http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1522

After a few exchanges with both users I could find the following. Looks
like both users have some additional (2.4) kernel patch that makes HZ
resolve to get_hz() instead of an integer value. This causes trouble
because this isn't allowed in struct initializations. I see three
possibilities:

1* This isn't the vanilla kernel, we don't support it.

2* We move the initialization of anything with HZ in it out of the
structure declarations.

3* We use USER_HZ instead of HZ when USER_HZ is defined (which is the
case with the mysterious patch, USER_HZ is 100).

Opinion anyone?

Thanks.

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/