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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timers: Add jsleep() and jsleep_interruptible()
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:39:00 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1302212008360.22263@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361472491-10848-1-git-send-email-abbotti@mev.co.uk>

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Ian Abbott wrote:
> I'm not sure how useful this would be, but there are a couple of places
> in "serial_core.c" that could usefully call jsleep_interruptible()
> instead of msleep_interruptible().

Oh no. jiffies is such a misconception. 

We want to get rid of jiffies in the long run not fostering the usage.

Thanks,

	tglx

      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-21 18:48 Ian Abbott
2013-02-21 19:39 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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