Hi, On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > jiffies/HZ is the more powerful API. The msec one which also sets > > > current to (un)interruptible is the simplified wrapper on top. > > > > So why do you want to hide it? > > I don't want to hide it at all. I want to provide a simpler variant for > it for the cases where a simpler variant is enough. Then I don't understand your initial comment and I don't understand the point in adding a ms variant of this interface. If someone does care about the return value, he is better off to convert the initial value into jiffies and continue with that. > It really is a > helper to take some common task and get that closer to what the > programmer wants (wallclock time delay) And that's not what he gets... 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/
