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

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.

bye, Roman
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