On Mon, 24 May 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
ok cool, added item to latest kj TODO.
thanks
maks
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