From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ipv6: Expose IFLA_PROTINFO timer values in msecs instead of jiffies Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:05:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20101118.110523.15238652.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20101117114424.GA5838@canuck.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org To: tgraf@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45785 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757546Ab0KRTE6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:04:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20101117114424.GA5838@canuck.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Thomas Graf Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:44:24 -0500 > IFLA_PROTINFO exposes timer related per device settings in jiffies. > Change it to expose these values in msecs like the sysctl interface > does. > > I did not find any users of IFLA_PROTINFO which rely on any of these > values and even if there are, they are likely already broken because > there is no way for them to reliably convert such a value to another > time format. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf > Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Applied. Good to fix this now, thanks a lot Thomas.