On 23.07.2005 [15:29:42 +0200], Roman Zippel wrote: > 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? Make the jiffies based API the primary one > and add some convenience functions, where we BTW could convert already > constants at compile time.
We are not hiding anything; we are providing an alternative for those users that would like to request wall-time (human-time) units -- those users do not (or should not, if nothing else) expect any kind of precision from the sleeping path. Thanks, Nish - 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/
