From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use new msleep() in ADT746x driver
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:22:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BE370C.9010800@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1085873203.2140.21.camel@gaston>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 05:54, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
>>
>>>diff -Nru a/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c b/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c
>>>--- a/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c 2004-05-29 12:08:19 -07:00
>>>+++ b/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c 2004-05-29 12:08:19 -07:00
>>>@@ -246,8 +246,7 @@
>>>
>>> while(monitor_running)
>>> {
>>>- set_task_state(current, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>>>- schedule_timeout(2*HZ);
>>>+ msleep(2000);
>>
>>
>>IMO this is moving the code away from what the coder appeared to intend.
>>
>>A "sleep(2)" would be preferred, and more clear.
>
>
> This patch was done by the original author of the driver
Well, I think the author is making his driver less readable... "2
seconds" is more clear than "2000 msec", and I am willing to bet that
sleep() would have been used, had it existed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 20:28 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200405291908.i4TJ8Acm011281@hera.kernel.org>
2004-05-29 19:54 ` [PATCH] use new msleep() in ADT746x driver Jeff Garzik
2004-05-29 23:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-02 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-05-28 9:23 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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