Message-ID: <4C44D01B.6090508@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:22:19 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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To: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
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On 7/19/2010 3:12 PM, Patrick Pannuto wrote:
>    
>> I like the general idea, but I kinda doubt the "interruptible" version
>> makes sense for this...
>> do you have any users for that in mind? if not... can we leave the
>> interruptible version out... makes it simpler by a lot.
>>
>>      
> Respun without interruptible...
>
>
>  From 08b717cf4f76d7578cb20c1b1444d89a9331ce02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Patrick Pannuto<ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:09:26 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
>
> usleep[_range] are finer precision implementations of msleep
> and are designed to be drop-in replacements for udelay where
> a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. They also allow
> an easy interface to specify slack when a precise (ish)
> wakeup is unnecessary to help minimize wakeups
>
>    

excellent

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

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