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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