netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add new timeval_to

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:54:06 -0700
From:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	sri@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Varun Chandramohan <varunc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	varuncha@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add new timeval_to_sec function

Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net> wrote on 07/23/2007 11:22:39 PM:

> When you like to create any timeout based on your calculated value, you
> might run into the problem that your calculated value is set to _zero_
> even if there was "some time" before the conversion. This might probably
> not what you indented to get.

        BTW, these are stats (for human consumption), not timers.

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