Re: [PATCH] staging:rtl8188eu Fix msleep < 20ms can sleep upto 20ms

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Sep 05 2017 - 10:16:59 EST


On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 15:36 +0530, Janani Sankara Babu wrote:
> This patch solves the following warning shown by checkpatch script
> Warning: msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c
[]
> @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ s32 LPS_RF_ON_check(struct adapter *padapter, u32 delay_ms)
> DBG_88E("%s: Wait for FW LPS leave more than %u ms!!!\n", __func__, delay_ms);
> break;
> }
> - msleep(1);
> + usleep_range(0, 1000);

No, that would sleep a random time up to 1 ms.

usleep_range(1000, 2000) might be OK but please
check the value passed as delay_ms.

It's only used as LPS_LEAVE_TIMEOUT_MS (100 here)
so it seems just fine to keep using msleep.