[patch 24/25] pcwd: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()

[janitor@sternwelten.at]

I would appreciate any comments from the janitor@sternweltens list. This is one (of
many) cases where I made a decision about replacing

set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule_timeout(some_time);

with

msleep(jiffies_to_msecs(some_time));

msleep() is not exactly the same as the previous code, but I only did
this replacement where I thought long delays were *desired*. If this is
not the case here, then just disregard this patch.

Thanks,
Nish



Description: Uses msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee
the task delays at least the desired time amount.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>



---

 linux-2.6.9-rc1-bk7-max/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd.c~msleep-drivers_char_watchdog_pcwd drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd.c
--- linux-2.6.9-rc1-bk7/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd.c~msleep-drivers_char_watchdog_pcwd	2004-09-01 19:34:47.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.9-rc1-bk7-max/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd.c	2004-09-01 19:34:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -859,8 +859,7 @@ static int __init pcwd_checkcard(int bas
 		/* Not an 'ff' from a floating bus, so must be a card! */
 		for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
 
-			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-			schedule_timeout(HZ / 2);
+			msleep(500);
 
 			last_port0 = port0;
 			last_port1 = port1;

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