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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Create a DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to do division  with rounding
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:27:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249302441.7924.70.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090803142138.51738a18@hyperion.delvare>

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:21 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The proposed thing is simply DIV_ROUND, but this DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST name
> > is just wonky.
> 
> I can't disagree. I even think I argued about it back then, but then
> finally gave up. You should have participated in the debate when it was
> hot rather than 8 months later :(

Yeah, sometimes its hard to keep up with all on lkml, I only noticed it
because I ran into some code that used it.

Agreed on the other points.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-03 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-11  1:01 [PATCH 1/2] Create a DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to do division with rounding Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-11  1:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] adt74{62, 70, 73}: Use DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST for rounded division Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-11 10:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] Create a DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to do division with rounding Jean Delvare
2008-11-11 17:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 17:11     ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-11 18:51     ` Joe Perches
2008-11-11 23:05 ` [lm-sensors] " Trent Piepho
2008-11-11 23:20   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 23:42     ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-12  0:08       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-14 21:46         ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-14 22:24           ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 23:50     ` Jochen Voß
2009-08-03 11:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-03 12:21   ` Jean Delvare
2009-08-03 12:27     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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