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SubjectRe: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite
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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