Re: time_after - what on earth???

From: Adrian McMenamin
Date: Tue Sep 11 2007 - 18:15:21 EST


On 11/09/2007, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/12/2007 12:05 AM, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>
> > OK, why does this line occasionally return true:
> >
> > if ((maple_dev->interval > 0) && (jiffies >maple_dev->when))
> >
> > while this one never does (no other changes made):
> >
> > if ((maple_dev->interval > 0) && (time_after(jiffies, maple_dev->when)))
>
> Is maple_dev->when an unsigned long?
>
Yes. Does that make a difference?
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