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Question: How to sleep for x jiffies?

Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:02:51 GMT
From: Trent Piepho <>

I'd like to have a delay in a device driver of X jiffies, where X = 1 on intel and 8 on alpha. What's a clean and friendly way to do this? udelay(8333)?