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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:29:53 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Easwar Hariharan <eahariha@...ux.microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
> This is the second series (part 1*) that converts users of msecs_to_jiffies() that
> either use the multiply pattern of either of:
> - msecs_to_jiffies(N*1000) or
> - msecs_to_jiffies(N*MSEC_PER_SEC)
> 
> where N is a constant or an expression, to avoid the multiplication.

Please don't combine patches for multiple subsystems into a single
series if there's no dependencies between them, it just creates
confusion about how things get merged, problems for tooling and makes
everything more noisy.  It's best to split things up per subsystem in
that case.

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