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>
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Patrick Pannuto 2010-08-09 17:21:01 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -2584,6 +2584,14 @@ 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";