El Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:13:41PM +0530 nidhi mittal ha dit:
> i have set up a timer to execute after i sec using struct timer_list
> .....
> and
> and it executes after 1 sec okay
> but that's all only one time...
>
> i wanted to know
> does timer itself mean to execute only one time in future OR
> periodically after every one sec in future
if you want a periodic timer you need to reschedule it from the timer
function. remember that you define timer->expires as an absolute
jiffies value, how is the kernel expected to know the period?
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