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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces
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On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:04 +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.
>
> How is it more powerful?

jiffies/HZ is the more powerful API. The msec one which also sets
current to (un)interruptible is the simplified wrapper on top.



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