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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:04:00AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>=20
> Starting from scratch, I would use common units much smaller than a
> 1/hz tick or a millisecond for most times in the kernel.  Old interfaces
> like timeout() still get some benefits on some machines by using only
> 32-bit counters, but these benefits will become negative when 32-bit
> machine go away.
>=20

Thanks for your insight Bruce.  I'll define it locally to the usb stack
then.

Cheers,
Joe
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