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Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2 17/38] net/islpci_dev: repla

To: Margit Schubert-While <margitsw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2 17/38] net/islpci_dev: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:04:07 -0400
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, prism54-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx, hvr@xxxxxxx
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Margit Schubert-While wrote:
At 09:55 01.10.2004 -0700, Greg scribeth:

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:04:27AM +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> At 00:15 01.10.2004 -0400, Jeff scribeth:
> >I would rather see an msleep implementation in 2.4.x...
>
> Hear, hear.
> And can we PLEASE have a
> "#define HAVE_MSLEEP"  in delay.h ?!!!
> (2.4. AND 2.6)

No, this is not how the kernel source tree works, sorry.


Well it happened with netdev_priv  ;-)
(HAVE_NETDEV_PRIV)


Net driver API is intentionally more friendly to cross-version kernel compat than the kernel as a whole ;-)

        Jeff



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