On Wed, Nov 06 2024 at 22:19, David Laight wrote: > From: Thomas Gleixner >> Still the macro should be documented. > > I was wondering if it really had any purpose at all. > It just obfuscates code, doesn't even make it smaller. What is obfuscated here? secs_to_jiffies() is clearly describing what this is about, while 5 * HZ is not. Nothing in a driver has to care about the underlying conversion of a time delta expressed in SI units to a jiffies based time delta. Thanks, tglx