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

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

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? The next step in introducing such API is that 
people start complaining, they don't get ms precision, which of course is 
fixed by the next patch, with then results in that the whole timer system 
becomes more complex for a few misguided users.
Keep the thing as simple as possible and jiffies _are_ simple. Please show 
me the problem, that needs to be fixed.

bye, Roman
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