Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Normalize jiffies reported to userspace, in neighbor management code

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:02:00 -0800

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:31:28 -0600 (CST)
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / _$B5HF#1QL@ <[email-masked]> wrote:

> In article <[email-masked]> (at Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:02:33 -0800), "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]> says:
> 
> > Another idea is to change do_proc_dointvec() to take a conversion function
> > pointer instead of this "conv" thing.  Maybe even proc_dointvec_minmax()
> > could be implemented in terms of do_proc_dointvec() with such a scheme.
> 
> This is essentially identical to what I thought.
> Okay, how about this?

This looks very nice, thank you Yoshfuji.

I'm asking Linus what we should do here.  It's a big change to
make to fix this bug, and if he thinks so too we'll just use
your original patch which is a safer version of the fix for 2.6.0
purposes.  If that happens, we'll integrate this nicer version
for 2.6.1 or something like this.

Thank you again.