Re: [PATCH 1/2] sound: ad1889: Replace mdelay with usleep_range in snd_ad1889_init

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 09:17:15 EST


On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:03:20 +0200,
Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>
> snd_ad1889_init() is never called in atomic context.
>
> The call chain ending up at snd_ad1889_init() is:
> [1] snd_ad1889_init() <- snd_ad1889_create() <- snd_ad1889_probe()
>
> snd_ad1889_probe() is only set as ".probe" in struct pci_driver.
> This function is not called in atomic context.
>
> Despite never getting called from atomic context, snd_ad1889_init()
> calls mdelay for busy wait.
> This is not necessary and can be replaced with usleep_range to
> avoid busy waiting.
>
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>

Since it's no urgent fix, I'll postpone to 4.18.


thanks,

Takashi