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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] SEC() and MSEC() and USEC() macros
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:32:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070319163207.GE774@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703191148570.12453@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>

On 19.03.2007 [11:51:23 -0400], Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   no, it's not a serious proposal but, boy, wouldn't it have made the
> code more readable if someone had defined macros/inline functions like
> sec(), msec() and usec() rather than cluttering up the code with
> things like "22*HZ/10" and "30*HZ/100".
> 
>   just thinking out loud, don't take it seriously.

Uh... You mean jiffies_to_msecs, jiffies_to_usecs (and their opposites)?

Note, you have to be careful with rounding, so you may need to add 1 to
the return of these *functions* (macros would be a terrible idea :)

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-19 15:51 [KJ] SEC() and MSEC() and USEC() macros Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-19 16:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-19 16:32 ` Nishanth Aravamudan [this message]

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