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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] time: Fix truncation in jiffies_to_usecs()
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:56:13 +0200
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> So it may indeed be a better idea to first create a standalone jiffies_to_nsecs().
> It can then be used to deprecate and replace most (if not all) calls to jiffies_to_usecs()
> altogether. Just the conversion must be made one by one to make sure that users can
> handle that.
>
> Of course a big fat comment on jiffies_to_usecs() to describe that it's unsafe
> and deprecated would help a bit.

Sure, sounds like a plan.

-- Steve


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