Re: timer function

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Hi folks,
There are lots of timer function which executes periodically below is the link:

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1750&context=cis_reports

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:12 PM, nidhi mittal <nidhimittal19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yes i solved it
i timer function i set it again for another 1 sec and it works fine ..
thanks


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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