Re: [PATCH 1/4] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 17:26:41 EST


On 7/28/2010 2:23 PM, Andrew Morton wrote

, it would never have happened.

In that case, it would pus
h me in the direction of only providing
usleep_range, and thus forcing people to think about it that way;
leave slack decisions to people who know what tolerances are acceptable.
Well, I _think_ that would be a good approach. I'm 45%/55% on that one
and would be interested in other opinions ;)


for new interfaces I'd really like a "range only" option... make people think.
And passing in a 0 is easy.

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