From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] add time_after_now and other macros which compare with jiffies
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 01:22:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080307012244.ed7625ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8e1da0803070112p6a5e076aw569a50a69de91504@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:12:29 +0800 "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, I will add proper comment before them.
Sob. Of the 809 usages of time_after(), it appears that over 700 are
comparing with jiffies. So with your (good) change, someone will get
buried in well-meaning convert-to-time_after_now patches.
I wonder who that might be?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-07 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 3:09 [PATCH RFC] add time_after_now and other macros which compare with jiffies Dave Young
2008-03-07 9:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-07 9:12 ` Dave Young
2008-03-07 9:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-07 9:36 ` Dave Young
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