netdev - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies

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Message-ID: <46E96BB8.6040202@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:56:24 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in	milliseconds
 rather than jiffies

> Your observations are correct. rtnetlink can't/shouldn't be doing conversions
> itself.  The 'ip' command should use a consistent unit for all values and
> do conversions if necessary.

That being the case I'll start looking to see what is involved in 
"leveraging" the time conversion stuff in tc for use in ip.

rick jones
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