Re: missing wait_event_timeout

[Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>]

Maybe it is just safer to call wait_event with the timeout check as one
of the conditions?

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:31, Steve French wrote:
> Is there a reason why there is no wait_event_timeout function in kernel.
> There is only the __wait_event_timeout_interruptible in wait.h
> It seems the easiest way to fix the few remaining pieces of code which
> call the deprecated sleep_on_timeout.
> 
> ie something like:
> 
> 
> > #define __wait_event_timeout(wq, condition, ret)
> > do {			
> > 	DEFINE_WAIT(__wait);	
> > 				
> > 	for (;;) {		
> > 		prepare_to_wait(&wq, &__wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > 		if (condition)				
> > 			break;				
> > 		ret = schedule_timeout(ret);	
> > 		if (!ret)			
> > 			break;			
> > 	}						
> > 	finish_wait(&wq, &__wait);					
> > } while (0)
> 
>