Wrapping jiffies [was Re: udev and devfs - The final word]

[Pavel Machek <pavel _at_ xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> actively do things that are "silly" on purpose. For example, for 
> debugging, we start the "jiffies" counter not at zero, but at -300. That's 
> patently _silly_, but it was very useful in finding the cases where the 
> rare general case was not handled correctly.

BTW, as we are currently in stable series, it might be good idea to
make jiffies start at zero... Hopefully jiffie wrap had enough testing
during stable...

								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo _at_ vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/