Re: [PATCH] wan: dscc4: use msecs_to_jiffies for conversions

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Jun 07 2015 - 03:14:10 EST


From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 10:41:06 +0200

> API compliance scanning with coccinelle flagged:
> ./drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c:1036:1-33:
> WARNING: timeout (10) seems HZ dependent
> ./drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c:554:2-34:
> WARNING: timeout (10) seems HZ dependent
> ./drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c:599:2-34:
> WARNING: timeout (10) seems HZ dependent
>
> Numeric constants passed to schedule_timeout_*() make the effective
> timeout HZ dependent which does not seem to be the intent here.
> Fixed up by converting the constant to jiffies with msecs_to_jiffies()
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>

Whoever wrote these things probably wanted whatever this amounts
to when HZ=100, so that is the only valid transformation you can
make to fix this up here.

Otherwise you seriously risk breaking the driver.
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