[PATCH 3/4] Checkpatch: prefer usleep over udelay

From: Patrick Pannuto
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 15:34:14 EST


When possible, sleeping is (usually) better than delaying;
however, don't bother callers of udelay < 10us, as those
cases are generally not worth the switch to usleep

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bd88f11..892ae62 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2570,6 +2570,14 @@ sub process {
}
}

+# prefer usleep over udelay
+ if (($line =~ /\budelay\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)/ {
+ # ignore udelay's < 10, however
+ if (! (($1 =~ /(\d+)/) && ($1 < 10)) ) {
+ CHK("usleep is preferred over udelay; see Documentation/timers/delays.txt\n" . $line);
+ }
+ }
+
# warn about #ifdefs in C files
# if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
# print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";
--
1.7.2

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