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[Kernel-janitors] Re: Replaces yield() with nicedelay() on drivers/net/sb10: msg#00158

Subject: [Kernel-janitors] Re: Replaces yield() with nicedelay() on drivers/net/sb1000.c.
On 02/05/04 22:24 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's the last REDIFF, but i'm not replacing yield() with 
> schedule_timeout() because there's a nicedelay() (maybe the
> usecs need to be tuned below) there:
> 
> 
> static inline void nicedelay(unsigned long usecs)
> {
>         current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
>         schedule_timeout(HZ);
>         return;
> }

And usecs stands for??
Funny thing is that there are actualy uses of this function.

Also, please make -p1 applyable patches.

> 
> Hope that helps,
> Gustavo Franco
> 
> --- drivers/net/sb1000.c.orig   2004-04-28 20:50:17.000000000 -0300
> +++ drivers/net/sb1000.c        2004-04-28 20:49:10.000000000 -0300
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
>         timeout = jiffies + TimeOutJiffies;
>         while (a & 0x80 || a & 0x40) {
>                 /* a little sleep */
> -               yield();
> +               nicedelay(10000);
> 
> 
>                 a = inb(ioaddr[0] + 7);
>                 if (time_after_eq(jiffies, timeout)) {
> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
>         timeout = jiffies + TimeOutJiffies;
>         while (a & 0x80 || !(a & 0x40)) {
>                 /* a little sleep */
> -               yield();
> +               nicedelay(10000);
> 
> 
>                 a = inb(ioaddr[1] + 6);
>                 if (time_after_eq(jiffies, timeout)) {
> 
> 
> 

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