(from now on, i'll use "ELDD" to refer to the book "essential linux device drivers.") on p. 34 of ELDD, we see an example of using schedule_timeout(): unsigned long timeout = jiffies + HZ; schedule_timeout(timeout); that doesn't look right, does it? i thought schedule_timeout() took, as an arg, the number of clock ticks to wait. what the above is doing is calculating an actual *time* in the future, "jiffies + HZ" representing the time (in jiffies) one second from now. or am i misreading something? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ