Re: bug in jiffy time comparison macros

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 22:52:16 EST


Hi,

Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It may just be me :-) but this looks like a bug:
> In the current include/linux/jiffies.h:
>
> #define time_before(a,b) time_after(b,a)
>
> Shouldn't this be:
>
> #define time_before(a,b) time_after_eq(b,a)

Then it would be time_before_eq()..?

If a is before b, b must be after a. If they might be equal, than from
both points of view.

Hannes
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