From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
domen@coderock.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
clucas@rotomalug.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:32:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1122125555.3582.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507231524430.3743@scrub.home>
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:29 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > jiffies/HZ is the more powerful API. The msec one which also sets
> > current to (un)interruptible is the simplified wrapper on top.
>
> So why do you want to hide it?
I don't want to hide it at all. I want to provide a simpler variant for
it for the cases where a simpler variant is enough. It really is a
helper to take some common task and get that closer to what the
programmer wants (wallclock time delay)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-23 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 21:31 [patch 1/4] drivers/char/ip2/i2lib.c: replace direct assignment with set_current_state() domen
2005-07-08 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-08 23:22 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-07-23 0:27 ` [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 0:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 1:08 ` [UPDATE PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}_msecs() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 2:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-23 16:23 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 10:50 ` [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 11:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 11:55 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 13:04 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 13:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 13:29 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 13:32 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-07-23 15:56 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 16:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 16:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 17:17 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 19:10 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 20:12 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-27 22:29 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-30 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-01 19:35 ` [UPDATE PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{intr,unintr}{,_msecs}() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-03 14:20 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 0:51 ` [PATCH] push rounding up of relative request to schedule_timeout() Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 5:14 ` [UPDATE PATCH] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 16:45 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-04 18:48 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-08-16 23:05 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-17 0:39 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-17 5:56 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-17 19:51 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-17 22:24 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 17:05 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-04 18:49 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-08-04 9:38 ` [PATCH] " Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 14:33 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 18:59 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 19:11 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 23:20 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 17:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-04 19:00 ` [PATCH] add schedule_timeout_{,un}intr() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-05 7:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-23 16:37 ` [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 17:01 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 19:06 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 20:22 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 16:30 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
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