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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces
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On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:55 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 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.

Sure sleeps are imprecise. All sleeps are even mdelay() (due to
preemption).


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