From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264737AbUF1G6P (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:58:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264746AbUF1G6P (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:58:15 -0400 Received: from disk.smurf.noris.de ([192.109.102.53]:57789 "EHLO server.smurf.noris.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264737AbUF1G6O (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:58:14 -0400 From: "Matthias Urlichs" Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:55:08 +0200 To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite Message-ID: <20040628065506.GA5557@kiste> References: <1088266111.1943.15.camel@mulgrave> <20040626221802.GA12296@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1088290477.3790.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040627000541.GA13325@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040627224115.GA22532@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040628012407.GC4648@kiste> <20040628054227.GB4025@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040628054227.GB4025@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i X-Smurf-Spam-Score: -3.8 (---) X-Smurf-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "server.smurf.noris.de", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: 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. [...] Content analysis details: (-3.8 points, 10.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 1.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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