From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:39:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4259E34A.6050109@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3Rgon-7E2-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
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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[not found] <3Rgon-7E2-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-11 2:39 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-04-09 5:02 easy softball jiffies quest(ion) philip dahlquist
2005-04-09 5:50 ` Vadim Lobanov
2005-04-20 3:36 ` James Cleverdon
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