From: Patrick Pannuto on
When possible, sleeping is (usually) better than delaying,
however, don't bother callers of udelay < 10us, as those
cases are not with the switch to usleep_range

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto(a)codeaurora.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bd88f11..e3625ac 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2570,6 +2570,14 @@ sub process {
}
}

+# prefer usleep_range over udelay
+ if ($line =~ /\budelay\s*\((.+)\);/) {
+ # ignore udelay's < 10, however
+ if (! (($1 =~ /(\d+)/) && ($1 < 10)) ) {
+ WARN("usleep_range is preferred over udelay; see Documentation/timers/delays.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";
--
1.7.2

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