Re: [PATCH 7/38] arch/x86/ia32: Use time_before, time_before_eq,etc.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 08:36:30 EST



* Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 03:23:19PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
> > > are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.
> >
> > The old code was actually correct I think, but the change is ok for me.
>
> Please ignore the patch. All of my before_eq and after_eq's are
> backwards due to parsing <= as >= and vice versa. I will try again.

your x86 patches (#7, #8 and #9) do not include any *_eq() comparisons
and they all seem to be correct. So picked those three up into x86.git -
let me know if there's any breakage in them that i missed.

Ingo
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