linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies

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Message-Id: <20080309120133.2d1363e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:01:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...urebad.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare
 with jiffies

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:08:08 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > Yes, This has a purpose as well. You will find most of the usage of these
> > macros are just compare some value with jiffies after doing some grep.
> 
> That is no reason to add more macros that hide how they do it, or make
> jiffies itself invisible to the grep search or variable usage finding
> tools (and for tickless that very thing is important)

We could call them time_is_after_jiffies(), time_is_before_jiffies(), etc.

Those names are actually better than time_after_now(), etc.

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