From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] irda: use msecs_to_jiffies for conversion to jiffies Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:46:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20150525.174641.1276114476375534221.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1432534610-4643-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: hofrat@osadl.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1432534610-4643-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Nicholas Mc Guire Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 08:16:50 +0200 > API compliance scanning with coccinelle flagged: > ./net/irda/timer.c:63:35-37: use of msecs_to_jiffies probably perferable > > Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" technically > is not a clean solution as it does not handle all corner cases correctly. > By changing the conversion to use msecs_to_jiffies(val) conversion is > correct in all cases. Further the () around the arithmetic expression > was dropped. > > Patch was compile tested for x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_IRDA=m > > Patch is against 4.1-rc4 (localversion-next is -next-20150522) > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire Applied, thank you.