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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:39:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] timers: Add jsleep() and jsleep_interruptible()
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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