On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:44:11AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:01 am, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > HZ always meant, since the last parameter was > > a jiffies-unit expression, the number of jiffies in a second ... > > ... HZ just means 100, or 1000, or whatever value it has). > > And anyone using HZ to do almost anything other than counting > jiffies was justifiably raked over the coals ... for example, > you'd not calculate bit rates in kbps by bits/HZ rather than > doing bits/1000. :) > > I like the idea of moving to count time in more appropriate > units, like milliseconds (for USB). But time units aren't > dimensionless ... HZ wasn't, but your patches shift from > using explicitly dimensioned constants to dimensionless ones.
Ah, I agree, that is dangerous. Hmm, trying to find another way to avoid using MSECS_IN_SECS :) -Nish ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
