From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: Use time_before Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140822.122850.930825136664297515.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140820174410.GA4225@himangi-Dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr To: himangi774@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140820174410.GA4225@himangi-Dell> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Himangi Saraogi Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:14:10 +0530 > The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq > are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. > > A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change > is as follows: > > @change@ > expression E1,E2; > @@ > - jiffies - E1 < E2 > + time_before(jiffies, E1+E2) > > Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi > Acked-by: Julia Lawall Applied.