Hi all, Thanx for the info. > Why would you ever, in userspace, need to know the > number of timer > interrupts received since boot? What are you > actually trying to do? > Maybe all you need is the time? We are testing the concept of user level device drivers. My work is to port alsa to user land. I basically need to remove all kernel dependencies and get it to compile in user space. I had to deal with some timers (all of them work with jiffies). I was thinking of a way to make it work without breaking the existing code. Guess the best way would be to use uptime and convert it into jiffies. Thanx, kaushik ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/