[PATCH 2.6] restore correct vaio handling in eeprom driver

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:52:55PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Depends on what the patch looks like.  Care to make it up to see if
> > it's not too ugly?
> 
> Here you go. Comments at the bottom.

Ok, very persuasive argument, I've applied this :)

One comment: 
> -	if ((jiffies - data->last_updated > 300 * HZ) |
> -	    (jiffies < data->last_updated) || !data->valid) {
> -		dev_dbg(&client->dev, "Starting eeprom update\n");
> +	if (!(data->valid & (1 << slice)) ||
> +	    (jiffies - data->last_updated[slice] > 300 * HZ) ||
> +	    (jiffies < data->last_updated[slice])) {

We do these jiffies comparisons a lot, is everyone sure they are
correct?  We should probably be using the proper macros/functions for
this, right?  I think I looked at this a while ago, and think they look
correct, but it would be good if someone else can verify this.

thanks,

greg k-h