Re: [PATCH 1/6] Staging: winbond: wb35reg: changed sleep functionfrom msleep to usleep

From: Iker Pedrosa
Date: Fri Aug 16 2013 - 07:41:37 EST


According to Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt it is not recommended to use msleep for 1ms - 20ms because it may sleep longer than 20ms. So, it is recommended to use usleep instead.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:05:10 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon 2013-08-05 11:58:27, Iker Pedrosa wrote:
> > Changed sleep function from msleep to usleep according to the documentation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Iker Pedrosa <ikerpedrosam@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Can you explain why this is good idea?
>
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Iker Pedrosa <ikerpedrosam@xxxxxxxxx>
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