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char/sonypi: replace schedule_timeout() with

PATCH New Nishanth Aravamudan 1 participant 1 message Jan 17, 2005

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PATCH 10/21 char/sonypi: replace schedule_timeout() with

Hi,

Please consider applying.

Description: Use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee the task delays as expected. In many cases, drivers sleep on a number of jiffies (1 in this case), which varies in real time units (milliseconds, for instance) with HZ's value. Using msleep() prevents this variance. I have assumed in this patch that the old value of HZ (100) was assumed, hence schedule_timeout(1) would delay for 10 msecs (equivalent therefore to msleep(10)).

drivers/char/sonypi.c +3 -6
@@ -286,17 +286,14 @@ static void sonypi_camera_on(void)
 
 	for (j = 5; j > 0; j--) {
 
-		while (sonypi_call2(0x91, 0x1)) {
-			set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-			schedule_timeout(1);
-		}
+		while (sonypi_call2(0x91, 0x1))
+			msleep(10);
 		sonypi_call1(0x93);
 
 		for (i = 400; i > 0; i--) {
 			if (sonypi_camera_ready())
 				break;
-			set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-			schedule_timeout(1);
+			msleep(10);
 		}
 		if (i)
 			break;

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