From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:41:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040627224115.GA22532@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.06.27.12.00.03.857572@smurf.noris.de>
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 02:00:03PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> <heretic>
>
> #define jiffies __get_jiffies()
>
> </heretic>
Well, I have that but it's only part of the story.
The real issue seems to be that a suitable clean API for drivers to
use rather than intenral knowledge of jiffies is lacking.
As Alan pointed out a suitable API could also make it easier to work
towards a clock-less system for embedded targets.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-27 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 16:08 James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:46 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 17:18 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 18:28 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:02 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:59 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:33 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-28 23:16 ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-07-01 13:11 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 14:07 ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2004-07-01 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-01 16:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-01 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:54 ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2004-06-27 0:05 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 12:00 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 22:41 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-06-28 1:24 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28 5:42 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 6:55 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28 7:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:19 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-01 13:33 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 17:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 23:37 ` jiffies_64 Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 1:55 ` more (insane) jiffies ranting Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
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