From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies
References: <200803080735.06984.hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:12:00 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200803080735.06984.hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> (Dave Young's
	message of "Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:35:06 +0800")
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Hi Dave, Andrew and all

Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> writes:

> +/* time_now_after(a) return true if now (jiffies) is after a */
> +#define time_now_after(a) time_after(jiffies, a)
> +
> +/* time_now_before(a) return true if now (jiffies) is before a */
> +#define time_now_before(a) time_before(jiffies, a)
> +
> +/* time_now_after_eq(a) return true if now (jiffies) is after or equal to a */
> +#define time_now_after_eq(a) time_after_eq(jiffies, a)
> +
> +/* time_now_before_eq(a) return true if now (jiffies) is before or equal to a */
> +#define time_now_before_eq(a) time_before_eq(jiffies, a)

How about even more obvious names like time_is_past(), time_is_future(),
...?

Sorry, I missed v1.  Should have proposed that earlier.

	Hannes
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