Re: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces

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. The point about using jiffies is to 
make it _very_ clear, that the timeout is imprecise and for most users 
this is sufficient.

bye, Roman
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