[tip:timers/core] Checkpatch: Prefer usleep_range over udelay

[tip-bot for Patrick Pannuto]

Commit-ID:  022d60db2ab6e97f93c98808d08fd883003048c7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/022d60db2ab6e97f93c98808d08fd883003048c7
Author:     Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:01:06 -0700
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:00:45 +0200

Checkpatch: Prefer usleep_range over udelay

When possible, sleeping is (usually) better than delaying;
however, don't bother callers of udelay < 10us, as those
cases are generally not worth the switch to usleep

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: corbet@xxxxxxx
Cc: arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1280786467-26999-4-git-send-email-ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bd88f11..1698c63 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2570,6 +2570,14 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# prefer usleep_range over udelay
+		if (($line =~ /\budelay\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)/ {
+			# ignore udelay's < 10, however
+			if (! (($1 =~ /(\d+)/) && ($1 < 10)) ) {
+				CHK("usleep_range is preferred over udelay; see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt\n" . $line);
+			}
+		}
+
 # warn about #ifdefs in C files
 #		if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
 #			print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";
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