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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdevice: ticks reaches 25, not 26.
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:57:14 -0800 (PST)
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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:22:11 +0100

> With while (tick++ < 25) { ... } ticks reaches 25, not 26.

Does it?

--------------------
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
	int i = 0;
	while (i++ < 25)
		;
	printf("%d\n", i);

	return 0;
}
--------------------
davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/linux-2.6$ gcc -O2 -o x x.c
davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/linux-2.6$ ./x
26
davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/linux-2.6$ 

I'm getting extremely tired of these "off by one" patches, to be
honest with you.