Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:26:31 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Poll-based IDE driver |
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:44:58PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > I do realize that the above code does not provide accurate > delay and may not work on all platforms. In that direction > I was considering using the loops_per_jiffy variable > which may provide more accurate/platform-independent delay (?) ..
loops_per_jiffy is meaningless when applied to anything other than the udelay function. It bears no resemblence in any way to the number of loops around a for loop.
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