Re: How to read a timestamp in kernel driver code?

From: Pauline Middelink (middelink@polyware.nl)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 18:35:14 EST


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 around 15:58:57 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I'm working on some stuff in keyboard.c that is timing sensitive
> right now. What I want to do is keep track of the elapsed time
> between to successive calls to handle_scancode().
>
> How exactly would I do this? I've snooped around here and there,
> and it appears that something like:

If you don't need an absolute time, but just the difference,
you could just look at the time difference between jiffies?

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