linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

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Message-Id: <1186378798.2697.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:39:58 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 03:03 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> There's no problem to provide a high resolution sleep, but there is also 
> no reason to mess with msleep, don't fix what ain't broken...

John Corbet provided the patch because he had a problem with the current
msleep... in that it didn't provide as good a common case as he
wanted... so I think your statement is wrong ;)

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