Re: patch: delay_50ms() in ide-probe.c in 2.2.14

From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 08:40:50 EST

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 arijort@valinux.com wrote:

> How does jiffies change?

jiffies is volatile and changed from interrupts.

It's not as if this delay loop is performance critical :-)

Matthew.

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