Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/*, net/core/neighbour.c jiffies cleanup

[Tim Schmielau <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >    jiffies cleanup patch of the day follows. Mostly boring changes of 
> > jiffies
> >    comparisons to use time_{before,after} in order to handle jiffies
> >    wraparound correctly.
>
> I want to _ask_ one thing people working on these changes.
> _Please_, defer this edit to 2.5. The changes are very good,
> but time for them is very bad.
>

Agreed. For now I will only post patches for code that really _is_ broken.
I've already learned that from the discussion with David Miller.
This way I might miss some places getting the comparison wrong, but
changes will be less intrusive.

However, I definitely want to see a 2.4.x someday that is able to run
for more that 497 days.


Tim