netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies

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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:01:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yjwei@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies

From: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:06:44 +0800

> The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
> jiffies against other values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>

There is some history of this in the networking code.

If you inspect carefully, the open-coded versions of
time comparisons in the networking have a larger window
of acceptance.

So actually, it is a regression fo use time_*() helpers
in these cases.

If these things have been like this for so long, it is
very likely there is a good reason :-)
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