netdev - kernel driver "drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c" msleep question

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Date:	Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:38:40 +0100
From:	Justin van Wijngaarden <justinvanwijngaarden@...il.com>
To:	nic_swsd@...ltek.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, romieu@...zoreil.com
Subject: kernel driver "drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c" msleep question

Hello,

I am in the progress of doing some checkpatch.pl clean-ups and took the above
driver to work on.

On line 6926 there is an msleep(1) statement.

According to the linux documentation @ Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt
the msleep is not functioning as it should.

see output from that documentation below.

// quote
Why not msleep for (1ms - 20ms)?
	Explained originally here:
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/3/250
	msleep(1~20) may not do what the caller intends, and
	will often sleep longer (~20 ms actual sleep for any
	value given in the 1~20ms range).  In many cases this
	is not the desired behavior.
// end quote

If you like I can take a re-write to usleep (1ms) or perhaps a 10/20 msleep.
I tested it both with my own hardware which works fine on both cases, but
ofcourse I don't have the hardware to test it for all use-cases.

Any preference?

Regards,

Justin van Wijngaarden
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