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Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ath9k: Fix build error on ARM

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On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:41 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 04:32:46AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Apparently, people just convert stupidly large udelay()s
> > to mdelay and not be bothered.
> 
> And that's the correct answer.  Having udelay(10000) rather than mdelay(10)
> is a sign that they weren't paying that much attention when writing the
> code.

Not really.

Look at the code that brought this up in the first place.

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 08:37 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Use mdelay instead of udelay to fix this error:
> 
> ERROR: "__bad_udelay" [drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko] undefined!
[]
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
[]
> @@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ static bool ath9k_hw_set_reset(struct ath_hw *ah, int type)
>  	if (AR_SREV_9300_20_OR_LATER(ah))
>  		udelay(50);
>  	else if (AR_SREV_9100(ah))
> -		udelay(10000);
> +		mdelay(10);
>  	else
>  		udelay(100);
>  
> 
> >     if (AR_SREV_9300_20_OR_LATER(ah))
> >             udelay(50);
> >     else if (AR_SREV_9100(ah))
> > -           udelay(10000);
> > +           mdelay(10);
> >     else
> >             udelay(100);

One chip needs a larger delay than the others.

It's not so much not paying attention as not
knowing ARM is broken for large udelay().


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