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Subject: Re: Incorrect mdelay() results on Power Managed Machines x86
To: andrew.grover@intel.com (Grover, Andrew)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:07:40 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I wonder if there is a way to modify mdelay to use a kernel timer if
> interval > 10msec? I am not familiar with this section of the kernel, but I
> do know that Microsoft's similar function KeStallExecutionProcessor is not
> recommended for more than 50 *micro*seconds.

Basically the same kind of recommendation applies. But as with all rules its
sometimes appropriate to break it

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