From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2 17/38] net/islpci_dev: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:04:07 -0400 Sender: prism54-devel-bounces@prism54.org Message-ID: <4161BAC7.8040305@pobox.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20041001084419.02570b18@pop.t-online.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20040924074745.00b1cd40@pop.t-online.de> <20040923221303.GB13244@us.ibm.com> <20040923221303.GB13244@us.ibm.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20040924074745.00b1cd40@pop.t-online.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20041001084419.02570b18@pop.t-online.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20041002105713.026705d8@pop.t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, mcgrof@studorgs.rutgers.edu, Greg KH , hvr@gnu.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org, prism54-devel@prism54.org Return-path: To: Margit Schubert-While In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20041002105713.026705d8@pop.t-online.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: prism54-devel-bounces@prism54.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Margit Schubert-While wrote: > At 09:55 01.10.2004 -0700, Greg scribeth: > >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:04:27AM +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote: >> > At 00:15 01.10.2004 -0400, Jeff scribeth: >> > >I would rather see an msleep implementation in 2.4.x... >> > >> > Hear, hear. >> > And can we PLEASE have a >> > "#define HAVE_MSLEEP" in delay.h ?!!! >> > (2.4. AND 2.6) >> >> No, this is not how the kernel source tree works, sorry. > > > Well it happened with netdev_priv ;-) > (HAVE_NETDEV_PRIV) Net driver API is intentionally more friendly to cross-version kernel compat than the kernel as a whole ;-) Jeff