Re: [patch 01/10] char/ds1620: use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout()

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:17:15PM +0100, domen@coderock.org wrote:
> Not sure why any driver needs to sleep for *two* ticks, so let's fix it.
> 
> Use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee the
> task delays as expected. Signals are never checked for by the callers or
> in the function itself, so use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of
> TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. The delay is presumed to have been written when HZ==100,
> and thus has been multiplied by 10 to pass to msleep().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>

> ---
> 
> 
>  kj-domen/drivers/char/ds1620.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN drivers/char/ds1620.c~msleep-drivers_char_ds1620 drivers/char/ds1620.c
> --- kj/drivers/char/ds1620.c~msleep-drivers_char_ds1620	2005-03-18 20:05:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ kj-domen/drivers/char/ds1620.c	2005-03-18 20:05:09.000000000 +0100
> @@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ static void ds1620_out(int cmd, int bits
>  	netwinder_ds1620_reset();
>  	netwinder_unlock(&flags);
>  
> -	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> -	schedule_timeout(2);
> +	msleep(20);
>  }
>  
>  static unsigned int ds1620_in(int cmd, int bits)
> _
> -
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