[2.4] Are jiffies in jiffies?

[Ihar 'Philips' Filipau]

Hello!

  [ I beleive this is real FAQ - so responding with private e-mails 
more appropriate.
    ptr("RTFM") != 0 are welcome. ]

  jiffies declared in kernel/timer.c.
  Name suggests that it is incremented 100 times per second.
  LDD2 suggests that it is incremented every 1000/HZ per second.

  Is it just name misleading - or I really miss the point?

  So to translate this to seconds i need (jiffies*1000/HZ)
  and milliseconds are just (jiffies/HZ) then.

  Am I right?
  I need this for {add,mod}_timer() calls.

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Ihar 'Philips' Filipau  / with best regards from Saarbruecken.
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