Re: [KJ] Re: [patch 2.4] back port msleep(), msleep_interruptible()

[Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:41:10 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> maximilian attems wrote:
> > diff -puN include/linux/delay.h~add-msleep-2.4 include/linux/delay.h
> > --- a/include/linux/delay.h~add-msleep-2.4    2004-10-30 22:48:46.000000000 +0200
> > +++ b/include/linux/delay.h   2004-10-30 22:48:46.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -34,4 +34,12 @@ extern unsigned long loops_per_jiffy;
> >       ({unsigned long msec=(n); while (msec--) udelay(1000);}))
> >  #endif
> >
> > +void msleep(unsigned int msecs);
> > +unsigned long msleep_interruptible(unsigned int msecs);
> > +
> > +static inline void ssleep(unsigned int seconds)
> [...]
> > +static inline unsigned int jiffies_to_msecs(const unsigned long j)
> 
> > +static inline unsigned int jiffies_to_usecs(const unsigned long j)
> 
> > +static inline unsigned long msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m)
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure more than one of these symbols clashes with a symbol
> defined locally in a driver.  I like the patch but we can't apply it
> until the impact on existing code is evaluated.

More than likely much of the code cleanup that was done before I began
my patches, like removing custom msleep()s from drivers will need to
be done again, as Jeff points out.

-Nish