Wrapping jiffies [was Re: udev and devfs - The final word]

Pavel Machek
2004-01-03T18:33:48Z

Hi!

> actively do things that are "silly" on purpose. For example, for
> debugging, we start the "jiffies" counter not at zero, but at -300. That's
> patently _silly_, but it was very useful in finding the cases where the
> rare general case was not handled correctly.

BTW, as we are currently in stable series, it might be good idea to
make jiffies start at zero... Hopefully jiffie wrap had enough testing
during stable...

Pavel
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