Hi, On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > What's wrong with using jiffies? > > A lot of the (driver) users want a wallclock based timeout. For that, > miliseconds is a more obvious API with less chance to get the jiffies/HZ > conversion wrong by the driver writer. We have helper functions for that. The point about using jiffies is to make it _very_ clear, that the timeout is imprecise and for most users this is sufficient. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
