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>
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> >
> > That should be udelay, not usleep of course,
>
> Duh. Yes.
>
> > but it gives me an excuse
> > to bring up another point. A comment near the udelay code hints that
> > you shouldn't use it for > 1000us. Yet this seems largely ignored in
> > various driver source files (with delays up to 1000000us being used)
>
> With too large values, the udelay counter will simply overflow. I suspect
> anything under a second is reasonably safe, but precision is probably
> horrible.
Just a question, but in what type of a scenario is a large delay needed?
Gerhard
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