linux-kernel - [PATCH] speakup: Clarify bleep

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Message-Id: <20260126201707.1297665-1-zeri@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:17:07 -0500
From: Henry Zhang <henryzhangjcle@...il.com>
To: speakup@...ux-speakup.org
Cc: w.d.hubbs@...il.com,
	chris@...-brannons.com,
	kirk@...sers.ca,
	samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Henry Zhang <zeri@...ch.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] speakup: Clarify bleep_time unit is milliseconds

The documentation had a TODO questioning whether the unit was in
jiffies. The implementation in drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c
passes spk_bleep_time to msecs_to_jiffies(), confirming the unit is
in milliseconds.

Signed-off-by: Henry Zhang <zeri@...ch.edu>
---
 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup
index bcb6831aa114..8b508b4a7a00 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ What:		/sys/accessibility/speakup/bleep_time
 KernelVersion:	2.6
 Contact:	speakup@...ux-speakup.org
 Description:	This controls the duration of the PC speaker beeps speakup
-		produces.
-		TODO: What are the units? Jiffies?
+		produces, in milliseconds.
 
 What:		/sys/accessibility/speakup/cursor_time
 KernelVersion:	2.6
-- 
2.34.1