From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up...
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:17:52 -0400
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Woah, that's new.  And wrong.  The code in include/asm-i386/param.h that
>>>says:
>>>	# define JIFFIES_TO_MSEC(x)     (x)
>>>	# define MSEC_TO_JIFFIES(x)     (x)
>>>
>>>Is not correct.  Look at kernel/sched.c for verification of this :)
>>
>>
>>Yes, that is _massively_ broken.
> 
> 
> why is it wrong?


Because drivers define that exact same symbol, in an arch-generic way.

	Jeff