Re: [PATCH] Fix UCB1x00 driver to use sched_setscheduler

[Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>]

At Sat, 12 May 2007 15:10:27 +0200,
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 19:39 +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote:
> > Fix Touchscreen driver for UCB1x00-based touchscreens to use
> > sched_setscheduler() instead of setting the fields of task_struct directly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.21-fix-ucb-drivers/drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-ts.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.21-fix-ucb-drivers.orig/drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-ts.c	2007-05-11 18:53:36.000000000 +0900
> > +++ linux-2.6.21-fix-ucb-drivers/drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-ts.c	2007-05-11 19:33:20.000000000 +0900
> > @@ -214,8 +214,9 @@ static int ucb1x00_thread(void *_ts)
> >  	 * We could run as a real-time thread.  However, thus far
> >  	 * this doesn't seem to be necessary.
> >  	 */
> > -//	tsk->policy = SCHED_FIFO;
> > -//	tsk->rt_priority = 1;
> > +//	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 1 };
> > +//
> > +//	sched_setscheduler(tsk, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
> 
> Can we please remove the unused code completely instead of replacing it
> by more commented out code ?

It's OK to me, but I'm not the driver writer and doesn't know how important
are those comments. If removing them is better for driver writers too, here
is the patch.

Thanks,

Satoru

---
Remove unnecesary comments on driver for UCB1x00-based touchscreens.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>

Index: linux-2.6.21-fix-ucb-drivers/drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-ts.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-fix-ucb-drivers.orig/drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-ts.c	2007-05-11 18:53:36.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.21-fix-ucb-drivers/drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-ts.c	2007-05-14 08:44:03.000000000 +0900
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline int ucb1x00_ts_pen_down(st
 }
 
 /*
- * This is a RT kernel thread that handles the ADC accesses
+ * This is a kernel thread that handles the ADC accesses
  * (mainly so we can use semaphores in the UCB1200 core code
  * to serialise accesses to the ADC).
  */
@@ -210,13 +210,6 @@ static int ucb1x00_thread(void *_ts)
 	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, tsk);
 	int valid;
 
-	/*
-	 * We could run as a real-time thread.  However, thus far
-	 * this doesn't seem to be necessary.
-	 */
-//	tsk->policy = SCHED_FIFO;
-//	tsk->rt_priority = 1;
-
 	valid = 0;
 
 	add_wait_queue(&ts->irq_wait, &wait);