On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:55 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > 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.
I think we just disagree then... I consider this one a helper function as well, one with a simpler API that wraps the more complex and powerful api. Sure sleeps are imprecise. All sleeps are even mdelay() (due to preemption). - 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/
