On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:04 +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. > > How is it more powerful?
jiffies/HZ is the more powerful API. The msec one which also sets current to (un)interruptible is the simplified wrapper on top. - 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/
