From: Shani Moideen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:30:13 +0530

> Replacing (jiffies - errtime < TIMEOUT) with time_before in net/ipv4/ipip.c
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shani Moideen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The test you are replacing actually gives a larger window
of acceptance than time_before() does.

It's been a long standing issue whether we should give up
this semantic advantage for the sake of code cleanliness
in the networking code.

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