Re: ds1620: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()

[Russell King]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:37:48PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Domen Puncer wrote:
> > It's right:
> > schedule_timeout(2*HZ) sleeps for 2 seconds;
> > msleep(2000) sleeps for 2000 miliseconds, and does not depend on what
> > HZ is.
>
> It seems I didn't understand schedule_timeout() properly, thank you for 
> the clarification.

As part-author of this driver, and actually of this particular bit
of code, a 2 second delay is intented here.  The fan needs to be run
at full power in order to start running, so the idea here is to give
it full power for 2 seconds and then to restore the temperature trip
points to the configured values.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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