Re: [linux-usb-devel] Old USB API

[Dmitri]

Quoting Wolfgang Mües <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Monday, 11. June 2001 23:24, Brad Hards wrote:
> 
> > timeout is in jiffies, and is the time waited from URB submission to
> > getting a -ETIMEOUT if things go wrong. Normally HZ is a good thing to put
> > in here.
> 
> May I ask for the definition of "jiffies", because I have found nothing
> similar in my physic book regarding the measurement of time....

It is a global, volatile variable that counts time in ticks.
See /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c for boring details.

Dmitri

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