Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 May 2005 18:42:33 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 jiffies |
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On 5/18/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 13:28 +0300, linux wrote: > > ok.i see what u mean. > > But should this value on a stable version be 0 again??? > > why? > "the absolute value has no meaning" -> why would "0" be special ??? > Answer: It's not. And actually -5 minutes is more useful than 0 because > it keeps helping finding bugs... why do you want it to start at 0 ? >
The negative value doesn't hurt. It's unsigned. Maybe he was thinking reading jiffies as the uptime directly. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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