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From: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: kj <kernel-janitors@osdl.org>, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [patch 1/8] irda/act200l-sir: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 23:40:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040901214003.GC7467@stro.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040901210929.GA11442@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:05:23PM +0200, janitor@sternwelten.at wrote:
> > I would appreciate any comments from the janitor@sternweltens list. 
uups mangled some text there sorry for this silly email.
> 
> 	I already commented that I don't like the confusing msleep()
> API and I prefer the more explicit schedule_timeout().
> 	But that's only me...
> 
> 	Jean

hmm we have still archs were HZ < 100.
i find msleep use msecs units a lot more readable than
	schedule_timeout((HZ + 99) / 100);

the schedule_timeout(HZ/100) gets safely converted with msleep.

--
maks
kernel janitor  	http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/


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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-01 21:05 [patch 1/8] irda/act200l-sir: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() janitor
2004-09-01 21:09 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2004-09-01 21:40   ` maximilian attems [this message]
2004-09-01 21:48     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2004-09-01 22:03       ` [Kernel-janitors] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2004-09-01 22:58       ` maximilian attems

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