Re: [PATCH] Poll-based IDE driver

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:44:58PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:

I do realize that the above code does not provide accurate 
delay and may not work on all platforms. In that direction
I was considering using the loops_per_jiffy variable 
which may provide more accurate/platform-independent delay (?) ..

loops_per_jiffy is meaningless when applied to anything other than the
udelay function.  It bears no resemblence in any way to the number of
loops around a for loop.

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