[Asterisk-Dev] what's the value of a jiffie in zaptel driver ?

[Derek Smithies]

Hi,

What happens if the code below is used on a box with jiffies set to 512?

Which means that the code below has made excesive use of magic numbers.

There is a define, HZ which is the number of jiffies per second in the 
kernel.
You can set up the time to wait, as some fraction of the HZ define.

Derek.
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Dinesh Nair wrote:

> On 22/11/2004 15:42 Steven Critchfield said the following:
> > I'm going to make a quick, unverified guess. It should be the one
> > defined in the linux kernel. Should be 100. 
> 
> which would mean that the code below in wcfxs_proslic_manual_calibrate() is 
> waiting for 800ms.
> 
> 	origjiffies=jiffies;
> 	while( wcfxs_getreg(wc,card,96)!=0 ){
> 		if((jiffies-origjiffies)>80)
> 			return -1;
> 	}
> 
> which seems rather long doesn't it ?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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