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Re: [PATCH] net/gt96100eth: replace gt96100_delay() with msleep_interru

To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/gt96100eth: replace gt96100_delay() with msleep_interruptible()
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:47:02 -0500
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 06:06:23AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

janitor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

@@ -528,7 +517,7 @@ abort(struct net_device *dev, u32 abort_
        // wait for abort to complete
        while (GT96100ETH_READ(gp, GT96100_ETH_SDMA_COMM) & abort_bits) {
                // snooze for 20 msec and check again
-               gt96100_delay(1);
+               msleep_interruptible(20);
        
                if (--timedout == 0) {


don't change the behavior of the driver, even if it disagrees with the comment.


Ok, please find the corrected patch below.

Description: Uses msleep_interruptible() instead of gt96100_delay()
to guarantee the task delays as expected. Removes prototype and
definition of now unused gt96100_delay() function. Corrects one comment
to correspond to the code.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>


--- 2.6.10-rc1-vanilla/drivers/net/gt96100eth.c 2004-10-30 15:33:30.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.10-rc1/drivers/net/gt96100eth.c 2004-11-01 11:05:37.000000000 -0800
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
// prototypes
static void* dmaalloc(size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle);
static void dmafree(size_t size, void *vaddr);
-static void gt96100_delay(int msec);
static int gt96100_add_hash_entry(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned char* addr);
static void read_mib_counters(struct gt96100_private *gp);
@@ -183,16 +182,6 @@ static void dmafree(size_t size, void *v
free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, get_order(size));
}
-static void gt96100_delay(int ms)
-{
- if (in_interrupt())
- return;
- else {
- current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
- schedule_timeout(ms*HZ/1000);

I'm still worried about this patch, because

1) in_interrupt() check disappears, and

2) does driver already include linux/delay.h ?



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