Re: [patch] Re: how to link to hrtimers in the kernel

From: George Nychis
Date: Mon Oct 06 2008 - 13:16:36 EST




Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, George Nychis wrote:

Hi all,

I have modified drivers/usb/core/devio.c to use hrtimer_nanosleep(), and have
included linux/hrtimer.h with it.

Please do not use hrtimer_nanosleep() in drivers. That's
wrong.

What do you want to achieve ?

I am trying to sleep at the microsecond level, which ssleep and msleep cannot provide. I couldn't find any other nanosleep method in the kernel.

I found information by searching the net on using jiffies to accomplish sleep periods, but that is not high enough in resolution.

I'd greatly appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!
George
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