[PATCH 2/4 Rev-3] Add new timeval_to_sec function
From: Varun Chandramohan <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-29 06:59:05
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
A new function for converting timeval to time_t is added in netlink.h. Its a common function used in differentplaces. The reason for adding this function in netlink.h is that its used by netlink for stats purpose. Signed-off-by: Varun Chandramohan <redacted> --- include/net/netlink.h | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index d7b824b..f86cc59 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h@@ -1100,4 +1100,17 @@ static inline int nla_validate_nested(st #define nla_for_each_nested(pos, nla, rem) \ nla_for_each_attr(pos, nla_data(nla), nla_len(nla), rem) +/** + * timeval_to_sec - Convert timeval to seconds + * @tv: pointer to the timeval variable to be converted + * + * Returns the seconds representation of timeval parameter. + * Note : Here we round up the value. We dont need accuracy. + * This is mainly used in netlink for stats purpose. + */ +static inline time_t timeval_to_sec(const struct timeval *tv) +{ + return (tv->tv_sec + (tv->tv_usec ? 1 : 0)); +} + #endif
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