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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