Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267238AbUFZX61 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:58:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267239AbUFZX61 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:58:27 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:184 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267238AbUFZX6Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:58:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chris Wedgwood , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , Paul Jackson , Linux Kernel Mailing List , PARISC list In-Reply-To: References: <1088266111.1943.15.camel@mulgrave> <20040626221802.GA12296@taniwha.stupidest.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1088290477.3790.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:54:38 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 16 On Sad, 2004-06-26 at 23:48, Linus Torvalds wrote: > "jiffies" is one of the few things that I accept as volatile, since it's > basically read-only and accessed directly and has no internal structure > (ie it's a single word). For most uses jiffies should die. If drivers could not access jiffies except by a (possibly trivial) helper then it would be a huge step closer to being able to run embedded linux without a continually running timer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/