linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timers: Add jsleep() and jsleep

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1302212008360.22263@ionos>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:39:00 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timers: Add jsleep() and jsleep_interruptible()

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
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