Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: dgnc: use schedule_timeout_interruptible()

[Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>]

On Sun, 31 May 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:41:27PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > API consolidation with coccinelle found:
> > ./drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_utils.c:16:1-17:
> >         consolidation with schedule_timeout_*() recommended
> > 
> > This is a 1:1 conversion with respect to schedule_timeout() to the
> > schedule_timeout_interruptible() helper only - so only an API
> > consolidation to improve readability. The timeout was being passed
> > as (ms * HZ) / 1000 but that is not reliable as it allows the timeout
> > to become 0 for small values of ms. As this cut-off is HZ dependent
> > this is most likely not intended, so the timeout is converted with 
> > msecs_to_jiffies which handles all corener-cases correctly.
> > 
> > Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_STAGING=y,
> > CONFIG_DGNC=m
> > 
> > Patch is against 4.1-rc5 (localversion-next is -next-20150529)
> 
> Can you resend this without these two sentances?  They are not needed
> and are just "implied" as you should have done this for every patch
> submitted.

The config does allow for some level of variantion (e.g. what hardware
it was compile tested for) and also if it was a module or built-in.

I originally put this below the "---" until I was explicitly ast to put 
it above http://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/11/552

will fix it up and resend.

thx!
hofrat