Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261666AbVDKCjf (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:39:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261667AbVDKCjf (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:39:35 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:52955 "EHLO pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261666AbVDKCjb (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:39:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:39:06 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion) In-reply-to: <3Rgon-7E2-3@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4259E34A.6050109@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <3Rgon-7E2-3@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 22 philip dahlquist wrote: > hi, > > i'm on a quest to get access to jiffies in user space so i can write a > simple stepper motor driver program. i co-opted the "#includes" list > from alessandro rubini's jit.c file from "linux device drivers" to write > jfi.c. That's not going to work, jiffies is an internal kernel value, you can't access it from userspace. What do you need jiffies for to do this? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/