linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/ia32/ia32

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:04:39 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@...il.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: coding style fixes in
 arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:32:33 +0100
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@...il.com> wrote:

> Fix plenty of coding style errors

Most of these kernel changes would probably get in the way of
real development, making patches reject that would otherwise
apply.

You did find one possible bug, though:

> @@ -467,9 +465,9 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file *file)
>  
>  #ifdef WARN_OLD
>  		static unsigned long error_time;
> -		if ((jiffies-error_time) > 5*HZ)
> -		{
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING 
> +		if ((jiffies-error_time) > 5*HZ) {
> +
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING
>  			       "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %s\n",
>  			       file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name);
>  			error_time = jiffies;

You may want to look into the time_after() macro and make sure
it is used here.

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