Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > There's no problem to provide a high resolution sleep, but there is also 
> > no reason to mess with msleep, don't fix what ain't broken...
> 
> John Corbet provided the patch because he had a problem with the current
> msleep... in that it didn't provide as good a common case as he
> wanted... so I think your statement is wrong ;)

Only under the assumptation, that msleep _must_ be "fixed" for all other 
current users too.
Give users a choice to use msleep or nanosleep, how do you know what's 
"best" for them?

bye, Roman
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