Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ change_compare_np @ expression E; @@ ( – jiffies = E + time_after_eq(jiffies,E) | – jiffies < E + time_before(jiffies,E) …