On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> said:
> > At the end of December, I made a patch to fix comparisons of the jiffies
> > counter that would break at jiffies wraparound.
>
> I think you should just forward the remaining bits to Marcelo directly.
>
Yes, I think I'll do so for 2.4.19pre.
[...]
> > - if (led_active && jiffies > led_next_time) {
> > + if (led_active && jiffies > time_after(jiffies, led_next_time)) {
[...]
> This hunk is surely wrong.
Thank you for spotting this. Obviously there are times at night when it is
even too late for simple search&replace like changes.
Also thanks for your comments on the busy-waiting loops. I stumbled
across them, too, but decided to first do the uncontroversial time_before/
time_after fix. I think I'll do another run on this low-latency
(well, less-horrendous latency:-) stuff later.
Tim
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