Re: [PATCH] Introduce jiffies_32 and related compare functions

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 03:01:02 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:56:35 +0100

> But keeping 64bits values 'just because hardware allows us this kind of
> expenditure' seems not reasonable to me, but lazy...

I agree with you for the most part.

Flexibility is pretty easy to maintain, and you seem to
alude to this, by allowing the jiffies_32 thing to have
a configurable type.

With this in mind maybe it's better to give the type some other more
descriptive name, something that states what the type represents,
rather than it's likely implementation :-)
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