Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 20:39 schrieb Greg KH:
> > For maintainability, code needs to have a few basic accommodations
> > for newcomers -- or semi-forgetful oldtimers. (I think that covers
> > pretty much every developer, come to think of it...) One of those
> > accomodations is using symbolic constants.
>
> And having to look up, "ah this field wants jiffies", was any different?
> No, I think this way is a bit more sane.
But that is a small minority of cases. Usually you look at code
rather than write it. At then the information, which field is the
timeout value is lost.
Regards
Oliver
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