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authorPatrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>2010-08-09 20:21:01 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-09 23:45:09 -0400
commit1a15a250862fda3fbdf8454cc7131e24de904e7c (patch)
tree23fab33bd014d426750ca486d0be7cf59d65eb31 /scripts
parent8bbea968f9022c3f66a36902509574597611be99 (diff)
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 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mismatched parentheses] Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2018f4349b47..8b69af8a76f9 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2584,6 +2584,14 @@ sub process {
2584 } 2584 }
2585 } 2585 }
2586 2586
2587# prefer usleep_range over udelay
2588 if ($line =~ /\budelay\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)/) {
2589 # ignore udelay's < 10, however
2590 if (! (($1 =~ /(\d+)/) && ($1 < 10)) ) {
2591 CHK("usleep_range is preferred over udelay; see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt\n" . $line);
2592 }
2593 }
2594
2587# warn about #ifdefs in C files 2595# warn about #ifdefs in C files
2588# if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) { 2596# if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
2589# print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n"; 2597# print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";