[PATCH 05/26] mfd: ab8500-gpadc: Change to mdelay for greater resolution

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Mon Jan 28 03:43:25 EST 2013


On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Samuel Ortiz wrote:

> Hi Lee, Jonas,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:55:45PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > From: Jonas Aaberg <jonas.aberg at stericsson.com>
> > 
> > The resolution of msleep is related to HZ, so with HZ set to
> > 100 any msleep of less than 10ms will become ~10ms.
> usleep_range would be more appropriate, sleeping should be preferred over
> spinning.

I believe this patch was written before usleep_range() was around. This
is addressed in a latter patch. Please allow this one in for a)
historical reasons (trying to keep the development history) and b) to
prevent any conflicts when we do reach the fixup patch.

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