On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote:
> Actually we could do the same thing they did for errno, i.e.
>
> #define jiffies get_jiffies()
> extern unsigned get_jiffies(void);
> No, not really. HZ still defines the units of jiffies and most all the
> timing is still related to it. Its just that interrupts are only "set
> up" when a "real" time event is due.
Great HZ always defines units of jiffies, but that is worthless if there
is not a ruleset that tells me a value to divide by to return it to a
specific quantity of time.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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