Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261172AbVESRbY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 13:31:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261176AbVESRbY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 13:31:24 -0400 Received: from ns1.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.210]:51934 "EHLO www.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261172AbVESRbT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 13:31:19 -0400 Message-ID: <428CCD19.6030909@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:30:01 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050417 Fedora/1.7.7-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux-os@analogic.com, Adrian Bunk , Kyle Moffett , "Gilbert, John" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h References: <2692A548B75777458914AC89297DD7DA08B0866F@bronze.dolby.net> <20050518195337.GX5112@stusta.de> <6EA08D88-7C67-48ED-A9EF-FEAAB92D8B8F@mac.com> <20050519112840.GE5112@stusta.de> <1116505655.6027.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1116505655.6027.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 22 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > HZ may not exist. At all; people are trying to remove it. And userspace > has no business knowing about it either. It can be helpful to know what HZ you are running at, for instance if you care very much about the (average) precision of a select/poll timeout. You can hack work-arounds to poor precision here using the /dev/rtc, but it isn't fun... Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.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/