Re: [PATCH] IIO: Change msleep to usleep_range for small msecs
From: Lars-Peter Clausen
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 08:36:12 EST
On 11/27/2016 11:51 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 26/11/16 03:47, Aniroop Mathur wrote:
>> msleep(1~20) may not do what the caller intends, and will often sleep longer.
>> (~20 ms actual sleep for any value given in the 1~20ms range)
>> This is not the desired behaviour for many cases like device resume time,
>> device suspend time, device enable time, data reading time, etc.
>> Thus, change msleep to usleep_range for precise wakeups.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aniroop Mathur <a.mathur@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> As these need individual review by the various original authors and driver maintainers to
> establish the intent of the sleep, it would have been better to have done a series of
> patches (one per driver) with the relevant maintainers cc'd on the ones that they care about.
>
> Most of these are ADI parts looked after by Lars though so perhaps wait for his comments
> before respining.
I agree with what Jonathan said. For most of these extending the maximum
sleep time a bit further is ok.