Hi, On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > Keep the thing as simple as possible and jiffies _are_ simple. Please show > > me the problem, that needs to be fixed. > > I am not sure why jiffies are any simpler than milliseconds. In the > millisecond case, conversion happens in common code and only needs to be > audited once. In the jiffies case, I have to check *every* caller to see > if they are doing stupid math :) Jiffies are the basic time unit for kernel timers, hiding that fact gives users only wrong expectations about them. I don't mind using helper functions, but constant conversion can already happen at compile time and for variable timeouts the user should seriously consider using jiffies directly instead of constantly converting time values. 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/
