On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:46:57PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> hello greg,
>
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:41:11PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > For some of these, a new function that was just added might be
> > > the appropriate kernel API to use. Look at msleep() [merged
> > > 2004-may-18] to see if it can be used. It's in include/linux/delay.h
> > > in a kernel bk pull or bk patch and will be in 2.6.7.
> >
> > I agree, most of the longer delays in the kernel can be converted to use
> > msleep() as it will work properly. Yet another thing to add to the
> > janitor list :)
>
> please detail functionnames of these longer delays for the TODO?
>
> does it affect the patches from Gustavo Franco?
> yield-* in http://debian.stro.at/kjt/2.6.7-rc1-kjt1/split/
Yes it does, they should use msleep() instead of creating their own
(incorrect) function.
thanks,
greg k-h
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