On Thursday, 14. June 2001 21:01, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I do this with intention: *you* as an old-fashioned linux
> > programmer - and many other here on the net - is knowing
> > very well what a "jiffie" is.
>
> 1/HZ of a second. Where HZ is a preprocessor constant dependant on
> platform, cpu and other stuff

Thank you, Alan.

So if I see "300" as a value for timeout as an argument of
usb_control_msg() [as in dabusb.c and dsbr100.c], 
this will mean different times on different platforms... ummpf!

> The new version of Linux Device Drivers is out (about 2.2/2.4 kernels) you
> might want to get a copy. It'll help a lot.

I will have a look.

best regards
Wolfgang

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