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## Timers Work...

  Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
  Re: Timers don't work?? (Joshua Liew)
  Keywords: timer
  Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 01:25:06 GMT
  From: Balaji Srinivasan <balaji@hegel.ittc.ukans.edu>

`The mistake with your code is that you need to update INTERVAL every time you add_timer. The expires field in timer_list is an absolute time not a relative time. for example: irq() { timer.expires = jiffies + INTERVAL; add_timer(&timer); }`