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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>,
	janitor@sternwelten.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@digeo.com
Subject: Re: ds1620: replace schedule_timeout() with 	msleep()
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:42:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041129224240.D5614@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411292336320.3389@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>; from juhl-lkml@dif.dk on Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:37:48PM +0100

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:37:48PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Domen Puncer wrote:
> > It's right:
> > schedule_timeout(2*HZ) sleeps for 2 seconds;
> > msleep(2000) sleeps for 2000 miliseconds, and does not depend on what
> > HZ is.
>
> It seems I didn't understand schedule_timeout() properly, thank you for 
> the clarification.

As part-author of this driver, and actually of this particular bit
of code, a 2 second delay is intented here.  The fan needs to be run
at full power in order to start running, so the idea here is to give
it full power for 2 seconds and then to restore the temperature trip
points to the configured values.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-29 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-01 20:57 [patch 18/25] ds1620: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() janitor
2004-11-28 17:39 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-29 14:09   ` Domen Puncer
2004-11-29 22:37     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-29 22:42       ` Russell King [this message]
2004-11-30  0:10         ` Jesper Juhl

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