[Kernel-janitors] [PATCH] ds1620: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()

I would appreciate any comments from the janitors list. This is one (of
many) cases where I made a decision about replacing

set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule_timeout(some_time);

with

msleep(jiffies_to_msecs(some_time));

msleep() is not exactly the same as the previous code, but I only did
this replacement where I thought long delays were *desired*. If this is
not the case here, then just disregard this patch.

Note: I looked for the appropriate maintainer of this driver, but I did
not find anyone. If someone could tell me who that would be, I would
appreciate it.

Thanks,
Nish



Applys-to: 2.6.7

Description: Uses msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee
the task delays at least the desired time amount.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>


--- linux-vanilla/drivers/char/ds1620.c 2004-06-16 05:18:57.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-dev/drivers/char/ds1620.c     2004-07-10 18:32:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -370,8 +370,7 @@ static int __init ds1620_init(void)
        th_start.hi = 1;
        ds1620_write_state(&th_start);
 
-       set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-       schedule_timeout(2*HZ);
+       msleep(2000);
 
        ds1620_write_state(&th);
 

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