Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

[Robert Hancock]

philip dahlquist wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm on a quest to get access to jiffies in user space so i can write a
> simple stepper motor driver program.  i co-opted the "#includes" list 
> from alessandro rubini's jit.c file from "linux device drivers" to write
> jfi.c.

That's not going to work, jiffies is an internal kernel value, you can't 
access it from userspace. What do you need jiffies for to do this?

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