Re: [PATCH] drivers/mmc/mmc.c: Replacing yield() with a better alternative

[Pierre Ossman]

Amol Lad wrote:
> In 2.6, the semantics of calling yield() changed from "sleep for a
> bit" to "I really don't want to run for a while".  This matches POSIX
> better, but there's a lot of drivers still using yield() when they mean
> cond_resched(), schedule() or even schedule_timeout().
> 
> For this driver cond_resched() seems to be a better
> alternative
> 

A version of this patch has been pushed towards Andrew. Thanks for
pointing it out.

Rgds
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