netdev - RE: [PATCH v4 net-next 11/12] bonding: trivial: rename slave->jiffies to ->last_link

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Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:02:36 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Veaceslav Falico' <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 net-next 11/12] bonding: trivial: rename
 slave->jiffies to ->last_link_up

> -	unsigned long jiffies;
> +	/* all three in jiffies */
> +	unsigned long last_link_up;
>  	unsigned long last_arp_rx;
>  	unsigned long target_last_arp_rx[BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS];

Personally I'd add _time to the member names (maybe not the last
as that is long enough already).
I sometimes go as far as adding the time units (eg _ms or _sec)
just to avoid confusion when reading the code much later on.

	David



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