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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:28:01 +0200
From: sebastien person <sebastien.person@sycomore.fr>
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Subject: [timer] max timeout
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Hi,

is there a max timeout to respect when I use mod_timer ? or add_timer ?

Is it bad to do the following call ?

	mod_timer(&timer, jiffies+(0.1*HZ));

that might fire the timer 1/10 second later.

Thanks.

sebastien person