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From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:55:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628065506.GA5557@kiste> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040628054227.GB4025@taniwha.stupidest.org>

Hi,

Chris Wedgwood:
> I think the approach is to look at _why_ people need jiffies and
> change this to a cleaner less low-level API using accessor
> functions/macros.
> 
That would be the correct long-term approach, true. 

However, going over 5000 jiffies usages and re-doing all of them doesn't
happen overnight, and I do suspect that some people want their embedded
clockless systems to run Linux 2.4 or 2.6, rather than 2.8...

-- 
Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-28  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-26 16:08 [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:46   ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 17:18       ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 18:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 18:28           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:54             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:02               ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:13                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:13               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:59           ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:11             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:33               ` James Bottomley
2004-06-28 23:16           ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-07-01 13:11       ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 14:07         ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2004-07-01 16:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-01 16:52             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-01 17:42               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:18   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 22:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:54       ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2004-06-27  0:05         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 12:00           ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 22:41             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28  1:24               ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28  5:42                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28  6:55                   ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2004-06-28  7:02                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28  7:19                       ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 14:37           ` Alan Cox
2004-07-01 13:33             ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 17:43               ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 23:37       ` jiffies_64 Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27  1:55       ` more (insane) jiffies ranting Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 17:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-27 17:39         ` [parisc-linux] " Linus Torvalds
2004-06-27 17:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:32 ` [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite Linus Torvalds

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