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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 09:27:25 +0200
From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when possible
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On Tue, 02 Jun 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 19:09 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > > To allow constant folding in usecs_to_jiffies() conditionally calls
> > > the HZ dependent _usecs_to_jiffies() helpers or, when gcc can not
> > > figure out constant folding, __usecs_to_jiffies, which is the renamed
> > > original usecs_to_jiffies() function.
> > 
> > Hi Nicholas.
> > 
> > Thanks for following through with this.
> > 
> > The subject might be nicer if it referenced usecs_to_jiffies
> > instead of being a bit generic.
> > 
> > Maybe something like:
> > 
> > time: allow gcc to fold usecs_to_jiffies(constant)
> 
> And for correctness sake the first letter after the colon, i.e. the
> one starting the sentence wants to be uppercase.
> 
added to my list of checks - sorry for being sloppy on that

> I'm going to fix that up all together when applying the lot. No need
> for resend.
>

thanks !
hofrat