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From: Alan Cox
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2008 - 4:08 am

> Yes, This has a purpose as well. You will find most of the usage of these

That is no reason to add more macros that hide how they do it, or make
jiffies itself invisible to the grep search or variable usage finding
tools (and for tickless that very thing is important)


It hides information.

Alan
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[PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compa ..., Dave Young, (Fri Mar 7, 4:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Johannes Weiner, (Sat Mar 8, 9:12 am)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Dave Young, (Sat Mar 8, 5:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Alan Cox, (Sun Mar 9, 2:58 am)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Dave Young, (Sun Mar 9, 3:44 am)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Alan Cox, (Sun Mar 9, 4:08 am)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Andrew Morton, (Sun Mar 9, 11:36 am)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Andrew Morton, (Sun Mar 9, 12:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Alan Cox, (Sun Mar 9, 1:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Alan Cox, (Sun Mar 9, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Dave Young, (Sun Mar 9, 7:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which c ..., Johannes Weiner, (Sun Mar 9, 7:41 pm)