Re: [PATCH] Addschedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:29 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > jiffies/HZ is the more powerful API. The msec one which also sets
> > current to (un)interruptible is the simplified wrapper on top.
> 
> So why do you want to hide it? 

I don't want to hide it at all. I want to provide a simpler variant for
it for the cases where a simpler variant is enough. It really is a
helper to take some common task and get that closer to what the
programmer wants (wallclock time delay)

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