Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:03:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers |
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Hi,
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven 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 ;)
Only under the assumptation, that msleep _must_ be "fixed" for all other current users too. Give users a choice to use msleep or nanosleep, how do you know what's "best" for them?
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