On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:50 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Also I'd rather not add the non-msec ones... either you're raw and use > > HZ, or you are "cooked" and use the msec variant.. I dont' see the point > > of adding an "in the middle" one. (Yes this means that several users > > need to be transformed to msecs but... I consider that progress ;) > > 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. > It's simple and the current timeout > system is based on it. Calling it something else doesn't suddenly give you > more precision. It's not about precision, it's about making the new API (which is intended to be a simplification already due to sucking in the state setting) match the intent closer. - 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/
