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 06:59:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727065959.GA17029@bytesex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040727062650.GG8798@bytesex>
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:26:50AM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:47:30PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > schedule_timeout(some_time);
> > 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?
Especially as msleep() does busy waits (unless I've missed something)
whereas schedule_timeout() doesn't? I'd like to veto this one, and
the other ones touching video4linux drivers as well.
Gerd
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2004-07-27 6:26 [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH] video/bttv-driver: replace Gerd Knorr
2004-07-27 6:59 ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
2004-07-27 15:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2004-07-27 15:53 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
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