Re: [PATCH v2] ide_tape: convert jiffies with jiffies_to_msecs

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 09:15:21 EST


On Tue, 03 Mar 2015, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On 3/3/2015 1:52 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
>
>> Use jiffies_to_msecs for converting jiffies as it handles all of the corner
>> cases reliably and also helps readability. The printk format is fixed up
>> as jiffies_to_msecs returns unsigned int not unsigned long.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
>> v2: change printk format string from %d to %u as suggested by
>> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
>> Note that this patch will give a checkpatch warning due to "quoted string
>> split across lines" but thats not related to this change.
>
>> This was only compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_IDE=m,
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
>
>> Patch is against 4.0-rc1 (localversion-next is -next-20150303)
>>
>> drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> The driver is called ide-tape.c, yet your subject prefix is "ide_tape:".
>
that is based on the output of git log --oneline and it seems that it is
the common prefix - in fact it seem rare to use the c-file name as prefix
for patch subjects.

thx!
ofrat
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