Re: 2.6 jiffies

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 13:12 +0300, linux wrote:
> Why jiffies start counting from a negative number and after 5minutes the
> counter gets positive????

to find bugs in broken drivers who think jiffies doesn't wrap or has an
absolute value...


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