linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/8] rust: time: Add wrapper for fsleep function

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Message-ID: <CANiq72kWqSCSkUk1efZyAi+0ScNTtfALn+wiJY_aoQefu2TNvg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:26:12 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/8] rust: time: Add wrapper for fsleep function

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 2:22 AM FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Do you mean msecs_to_jiffies() returns MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((LONG_MAX >>
> 1)-1) with a value exceeding i32::MAX milliseconds?

Yeah -- well, I was referring to its docs:

 * - negative values mean 'infinite timeout' (MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET)
 *
 * - 'too large' values [that would result in larger than
 *   MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET values] mean 'infinite timeout' too.

So I assume `fsleep` is meant to inherit that.

Cheers,
Miguel