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Message-ID: <20071114161613.GL6347@axis.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:16:13 +0100
From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: mikael.starvik@...s.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRISv10 improve and bugfix fasttimer
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:44:56PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:19:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > if (timeval_cmp(&t->tv_expires, &tv) <= 0)
> >
> > You have a private timeval_cmp(). Please take a look at utilising
> > include/linux/time.h:timeval_compare() instead. If that doesn't suit then
> > we'd entertain extensions of that interface. Adding private code to do
> > something as common as this is not a good thing.
Unfortunately, the above code lies to us.
The comparison is no longer on timeval, but on a fasttimer_t,
which contains different data. The name is just a leftover from when
it was a timeval.
I'll change the name of the function to highlight this.
Best regards,
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@...s.com
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