netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/2] add delay abstraction (sleep functions)

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Message-ID: <CAH5fLgiCaAdHOd-7oqdg1e+Pk1M8Bk9o182x0gkjR-_msY3jVA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 13:39:34 +0200
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>, 
	Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, 
	hkallweit1@...il.com, tmgross@...ch.edu, ojeda@...nel.org, 
	alex.gaynor@...il.com, gary@...yguo.net, bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com, 
	benno.lossin@...ton.me, a.hindborg@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/2] add delay abstraction (sleep functions)

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 1:27 PM FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Add an abstraction for sleep functions in `include/linux/delay.h` for
> dealing with hardware delays. `delay.h` supports sleep and delay (busy
> wait). This adds support for sleep functions used by QT2025 PHY driver
> to sleep until a PHY becomes ready.
>
> The old rust branch has the delay abstraction which supports msleep()
> with a helper function which rounds a `Duration` up to the nearest
> milliseconds.
>
> This adds fsleep() support instead of msleep(). fsleep() can handle
> various lengths of delay by internally calling an appropriate sleep
> function including msleep().

Add time keeping maintainers to CC.