netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ipv6: Expose IFLA_PROTINFO timer values in msecs instead of jiffies

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Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:05:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...radead.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ipv6: Expose IFLA_PROTINFO timer values in
 msecs instead of jiffies

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:44:24 -0500

> IFLA_PROTINFO exposes timer related per device settings in jiffies.
> Change it to expose these values in msecs like the sysctl interface
> does.
> 
> I did not find any users of IFLA_PROTINFO which rely on any of these
> values and even if there are, they are likely already broken because
> there is no way for them to reliably convert such a value to another
> time format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>

Applied.

Good to fix this now, thanks a lot Thomas.
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