On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 09:16:23PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote: > > It would, but then it would be unclear as to what units the timeout > was in. I have no other objection to timeout, I was just trying to > preserve the meaning in the existing overloaded name. The "n" to me > suggests a number and, if anything, number of jiffies conveys a more > precise meaning than simply jiffies did.
Use a comment for the unit. If you look you'll find tons of 'timeout' variables that measure in jiffies (and others of course). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
