Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262165AbVERKmr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 06:42:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262166AbVERKmr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 06:42:47 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.197]:22000 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262165AbVERKmf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 06:42:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EBe1Vv3cfb3WF0db85wTqnFUCrgvq42M9yeZQgqqRIwoe8lB5VC1alnwHaAoOiLZTQbLJC6TaqXQfOzlrntkeE1p9s552edwnCKp5H6hXSrfK5YmQCJlyCILaV+FYCR20CHIF9VrEbTferqb1m0a+qe88NSmbe/ejwfZCgJ9i9U= Message-ID: <2cd57c900505180342281248f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:42:33 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt Reply-To: coywolf@lovecn.org To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: 2.6 jiffies Cc: linux , lkml In-Reply-To: <1116412348.6572.21.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1116005355.6248.372.camel@localhost> <1116360352.24560.85.camel@localhost> <1116399887.24560.116.camel@localhost> <1116400118.24560.119.camel@localhost> <001b01c55b92$1d09c6e0$0101010a@dioxide> <1116411888.6572.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <004601c55b94$5ea29d50$0101010a@dioxide> <1116412348.6572.21.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 22 On 5/18/05, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 13:28 +0300, linux wrote: > > ok.i see what u mean. > > But should this value on a stable version be 0 again??? > > why? > "the absolute value has no meaning" -> why would "0" be special ??? > Answer: It's not. And actually -5 minutes is more useful than 0 because > it keeps helping finding bugs... why do you want it to start at 0 ? > The negative value doesn't hurt. It's unsigned. Maybe he was thinking reading jiffies as the uptime directly. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/