linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Create a DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to do division with rounding

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Message-Id: <1249302441.7924.70.camel@twins>
Date:	Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:27:21 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Create a DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to do division 
 with rounding

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:21 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The proposed thing is simply DIV_ROUND, but this DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST name
> > is just wonky.
> 
> I can't disagree. I even think I argued about it back then, but then
> finally gave up. You should have participated in the debate when it was
> hot rather than 8 months later :(

Yeah, sometimes its hard to keep up with all on lkml, I only noticed it
because I ran into some code that used it.

Agreed on the other points.
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