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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:14:10 +0530 From: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr> Subject: [PATCH] ipconfig: Use time_before The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change is as follows: @change@ expression E1,E2; @@ - jiffies - E1 < E2 + time_before(jiffies, E1+E2) Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr> --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 5bbef4f..648fa14 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ static int __init ic_open_devs(void) /* wait for a carrier on at least one device */ start = jiffies; next_msg = start + msecs_to_jiffies(CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT/12); - while (jiffies - start < msecs_to_jiffies(CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT)) { + while (time_before(jiffies, start + + msecs_to_jiffies(CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT))) { int wait, elapsed; for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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