Re: time_is_after_jiffies misnomer

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 11:19:26 EST


"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Look at the two:
>
> the current time is later than foo jiffies
> | | | `/.
> time_is_after_jiffies(foo)

It's not "foo jiffies", it's time "foo" vs time "jiffies" (where jiffies
is the well known global variable).

Andreas.

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