netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] /drivers/net/r6040.c: bad use of round

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 14:43:13 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Christophe Jaillet" <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:	"cj" <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	"linux" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] /drivers/net/r6040.c: bad use of round_jiffies()
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On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:26:22 +0200
"Christophe Jaillet" <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr> wrote:

> From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> Hi, here is a patch against linux/drivers/net/r6040.c.
> 
> Compared to other places in the kernel, I think that this driver
> misuses the function round_jiffies.
> 
> 
> Note: this patch is based on 'linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> ---
> 
> --- linux 2.6.25/drivers/net/r6040.c	2008-05-15
> 23:21:28.000000000 +0200 +++ linux
> 2.6.25/drivers/net/r6040.c.cj	2008-05-15 22:16:44.000000000
> +0200 @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ static void r6040_timer(unsigned long da }
>  
>  	/* Timer active again */
> -	mod_timer(&lp->timer, jiffies + round_jiffies(HZ));
> +	mod_timer(&lp->timer, round_jiffies(jiffies + HZ));
>  }
>  

good catch!
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
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