Re: 2.6 jiffies

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On 5/18/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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