Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753312Ab1BIUyd (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:54:33 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56147 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825Ab1BIUyc (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:54:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D525EF00200007800030F0F@vpn.id2.novell.com> References: <4D525EF00200007800030F0F@vpn.id2.novell.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:54:10 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow To: Jan Beulich Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Tim Deegan , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 27 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be > quite large by the time the kernel init gets this far. > > Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan > > !time_after() -> time_before_eq() as per suggestion from Jiri Slaby. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > Cc: Jiri Slaby > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge So I have nothing against the patch, but the changelog is broken. Is Tim the original author? If so, why wasn't that noted? I'm just guessing from that random signed-off line in the middle of the thing. Please guys, don't drop authorship attributions, or alternatively don't confuse me with odd random sign-off lines in the middle of the message. Linus -- 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/