[Kernel-janitors] [PATCH] isicom: 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 could not find any current Maintainer for this driver. If there
is one I should sent the patch too, please let me know.

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/isicom.c 2004-06-16 05:18:55.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-dev/drivers/char/isicom.c     2004-07-12 17:52:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -1906,8 +1906,7 @@ int init_module(void)
 void cleanup_module(void)
 {
        re_schedule = 0;
-       set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-       schedule_timeout(HZ);
+       msleep(1000);
 
 #ifdef ISICOM_DEBUG    
        printk("ISICOM: isicom_tx tx_count = %ld.\n", tx_count);

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