From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH] video/bttv-driver: replace
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 06:26:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727062650.GG8798@bytesex> (raw)
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:47:30PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> 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,
How does it differ? And what exactly is the point in replacing it?
Gerd
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2004-07-27 6:26 Gerd Knorr [this message]
2004-07-27 6:59 ` [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH] video/bttv-driver: replace Gerd Knorr
2004-07-27 15:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2004-07-27 15:53 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
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