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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 and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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scripts/checkpatch.pl
··· 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" . $line); 2592 + } 2593 + } 2594 + 2587 2595 # warn about #ifdefs in C files 2588 2596 # if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) { 2589 2597 # print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";