Re: jiffies and co

Paul Slootman (paul@wau.mis.ah.nl)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:03:29 +0200

In article <Pine.A41.4.10.9908171208400.15310-100000@pund.acc.umu.se> you write:
>
>From just a quick scan (grep + ocular-investigation), there seem to be at
>least a few places left in the kernel where jiffies are treated as int,
>not unsigned long. Are those left on purpose, or should I fix 'em up?!

I fixed floppy.c last week in case you're wondering about that ;-)
It's in Alan's prepatch for 2.2.12, don't know whether Linus accepted
it for 2.3.x yet.

FYI this meant that after about 20 days, the floppy was unusable on
alpha (timeout errors due to assumptions about jiffies fitting into
ints). As the alpha has a 1024Hz clock, this problem is apparent much
sooner there.

Paul Slootman

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