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List:       kernel-janitors
Subject:    [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH] video/zoran_device: replace
From:       "Ronald S. Bultje" <R.S.Bultje () students ! uu ! nl>
Date:       2004-07-28 18:54:32
Message-ID: 1091040872.18502.8.camel () shrek ! bitfreak ! net
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Hi Nish,

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 01:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> I would appreciate any comments from the janitors list.
[..]
> Description: Uses msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() so the task
> is guaranteed to delay the desired time.

Can you explain some more to a relative scheduling newbie? Is the use of
schedule_timeout() discouraged? Or is its use here wrong? And why
exactly?

Thanks,

Ronald



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