Re: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}()interfaces

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> Also I'd rather not add the non-msec ones... either you're raw and use
> HZ, or you are "cooked" and use the msec variant.. I dont' see the point
> of adding an "in the middle" one. (Yes this means that several users
> need to be transformed to msecs but... I consider that progress ;)

What's wrong with using jiffies? It's simple and the current timeout 
system is based on it. Calling it something else doesn't suddenly give you 
more precision.

bye, Roman
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