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| author |   Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2009-02-24 19:19:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2009-02-24 19:19:49 +0100 |
| commit | cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d (patch) | |
| tree | 010cd2255376a95120da810a1600bbd8d4d7d1c3 /include/linux/i2c.h | |
| parent | i2c: Timeouts reach -1 (diff) | |
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i2c-dev: Clarify the unit of ioctl I2C_TIMEOUT
The unit in which user-space can set the bus timeout value is jiffies
for historical reasons (back when HZ was always 100.) This is however
not good because user-space doesn't know how long a jiffy lasts. The
timeout value should instead be set in a fixed time unit. Given the
original value of HZ, this unit should be 10 ms, for compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/i2c.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/i2c.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h index fcfbfea3af72..c86c3b07604c 100644 --- a/include/linux/i2c.h +++ b/include/linux/i2c.h @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ struct i2c_adapter { struct mutex bus_lock; struct mutex clist_lock; - int timeout; + int timeout; /* in jiffies */ int retries; struct device dev; /* the adapter device */ |