Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758410AbYLPQTZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:19:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758037AbYLPQS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:18:57 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34164 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758027AbYLPQS4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:18:56 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es Cc: "Johannes Weiner" , "linux kernel" Subject: Re: time_is_after_jiffies misnomer References: <200812161517.mBGFHUE07109@inv.it.uc3m.es> X-Yow: Yow!! That's a GOOD IDEA!! Eating a whole FIELD of COUGH MEDICINE should make you feel MUCH BETTER!! Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:18:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200812161517.mBGFHUE07109@inv.it.uc3m.es> (Peter T. Breuer's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:17:30 +0100 (MET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 23 "Peter T. Breuer" writes: > Look at the two: > > the current time is later than foo jiffies > | | | `/. > time_is_after_jiffies(foo) It's not "foo jiffies", it's time "foo" vs time "jiffies" (where jiffies is the well known global variable). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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/