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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 02:00:03PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> <heretic>
>
> #define jiffies __get_jiffies()
>
> </heretic>

Well, I have that but it's only part of the story.

The real issue seems to be that a suitable clean API for drivers to
use rather than intenral knowledge of jiffies is lacking.

As Alan pointed out a suitable API could also make it easier to work
towards a clock-less system for embedded targets.


   --cw