[PATCH 1/2] staging: dgnc: use schedule_timeout_interruptible()

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun May 31 01:25:56 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:41:27PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> API consolidation with coccinelle found:
> ./drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_utils.c:16:1-17:
>         consolidation with schedule_timeout_*() recommended
> 
> This is a 1:1 conversion with respect to schedule_timeout() to the
> schedule_timeout_interruptible() helper only - so only an API
> consolidation to improve readability. The timeout was being passed
> as (ms * HZ) / 1000 but that is not reliable as it allows the timeout
> to become 0 for small values of ms. As this cut-off is HZ dependent
> this is most likely not intended, so the timeout is converted with 
> msecs_to_jiffies which handles all corener-cases correctly.
> 
> Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_STAGING=y,
> CONFIG_DGNC=m
> 
> Patch is against 4.1-rc5 (localversion-next is -next-20150529)

Can you resend this without these two sentances?  They are not needed
and are just "implied" as you should have done this for every patch
submitted.

thanks,

greg k-h


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