From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH 1/21] polling loops: change exit condition
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:12:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4394751B.3080701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43923469.3090808@gmail.com>
Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
>>>here is the first part of patch which changes many polling loops to use
>>>jiffies and time_after / time_before instead of counters
>>>most of the changes are in drivers directory (except first patch)
>>>as it is my first patch for linux kernel, feel free to point out any
>>>mistake you'll find
>>
>>Hmm, what happened to the poll_event API that Nish had suggested
>>some time ago for this problem? Was there an actual reason against
>>merging it or did the patch just get lost?
>
>
> A good question. I'll try to dig up my patch from my old machine and
> take a look if it can be used instead of all these changes.
i think you ment "with", not "instead" ;)
in my ("kernel newbie" ;) humble opinion these macros make code harder
too read
(last version of your patch i found is here:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2005-March/003699.html)
regards,
Marcin
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-04 0:12 [KJ] [PATCH 1/21] polling loops: change exit condition to Marcin Slusarz
2005-12-04 19:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-12-04 20:18 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-12-05 17:12 ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
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