Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthias Urlichs" <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:55:08 +0200 | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite |
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Hi,
Chris Wedgwood: > I think the approach is to look at _why_ people need jiffies and > change this to a cleaner less low-level API using accessor > functions/macros. > That would be the correct long-term approach, true.
However, going over 5000 jiffies usages and re-doing all of them doesn't happen overnight, and I do suspect that some people want their embedded clockless systems to run Linux 2.4 or 2.6, rather than 2.8...
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