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Message-Id: <20150524.161029.184486397241230288.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 24 May 2015 16:10:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hofrat@...dl.org
Cc:	samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use msecs_to_jiffies for conversion to jiffies

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 15:43:36 +0200

> API compliance scanning with coccinelle flagged:
> ./net/irda/timer.c:63:35-37: use of msecs_to_jiffies probably perferable
> 
> Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" technically
> is not a clean solution as it does not handle all corner cases correctly.
> By changing the conversion to use msecs_to_jiffies(val) conversion is
> correct in all cases. Further the () around the arithmetic expression
> was dropped.
> 
> Patch was compile tested for x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_IRDA=m
> 
> Patch is against 4.1-rc4 (localversion-next is -next-20150522)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>

The appropriate subsystem prefix for this change is not "net: "
but rather "irda: ", please update your Subject line accordingly
and resubmit.

Thanks.
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