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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Adrian McMenamin <lkmladrian@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: time_after - what on earth???
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:19:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E7145D.10907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b67d60709111515m5b45c57emef5cc2f74795ed7a@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/12/2007 12:15 AM, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> On 11/09/2007, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/12/2007 12:05 AM, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>
>>> OK, why does this line occasionally return true:
>>>
>>>       if ((maple_dev->interval > 0) && (jiffies >maple_dev->when))
>>>
>>> while this one never does (no other changes made):
>>>
>>> if  ((maple_dev->interval > 0) && (time_after(jiffies, maple_dev->when)))
>> Is maple_dev->when an unsigned long?
>>
> Yes. Does that make a difference?

If it had been a signed type, it could've wrapped to something you didn't 
expect, explaining the difference at least...

With an unsigned long, the only diference should be that time_after() deals 
with jiffie wrapping which I assume is not an actual problem here. I'll 
retreat into the shades again... ;-(

Rene.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-11 22:05 time_after - what on earth??? Adrian McMenamin
2007-09-11 22:11 ` Rene Herman
2007-09-11 22:15   ` Adrian McMenamin
2007-09-11 22:19     ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-09-11 23:09       ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-09-11 23:10         ` Adrian McMenamin
2007-09-11 23:50           ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-09-12  0:03             ` Adrian McMenamin
2007-09-11 23:16         ` Rene Herman

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