Re: [PATCH 2/2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when possible

[John Stultz]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 19:09 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
>> > To allow constant folding in usecs_to_jiffies() conditionally calls
>> > the HZ dependent _usecs_to_jiffies() helpers or, when gcc can not
>> > figure out constant folding, __usecs_to_jiffies, which is the renamed
>> > original usecs_to_jiffies() function.
>>
>> Hi Nicholas.
>>
>> Thanks for following through with this.
>>
>> The subject might be nicer if it referenced usecs_to_jiffies
>> instead of being a bit generic.
>>
>> Maybe something like:
>>
>> time: allow gcc to fold usecs_to_jiffies(constant)
>
> And for correctness sake the first letter after the colon, i.e. the
> one starting the sentence wants to be uppercase.

Is this something that would be worth adding to checkpatch?

thanks
-john
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