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Message-ID: <452CFD98.6010808@drzeus.cx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:20:08 +0200
From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Amol Lad <amol@...ismonetworks.com>,
kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: most users of msleep_interruptible are broken
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> They clearly don't care about exactness; they msleep_interruptible and
> throw away the return value, so they don't know how long they slept
> before they got a signal.
>
It's broken then. That delay function should delay at least the amount
given.
Rgds
Pierre
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