Patrick Pannuto 0fcb80818b Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt ... This file seeks to explain the nuances in various delays; many driver writers are not necessarily familiar with the various kernel timers, their shortfalls, and quirks. When faced with ndelay, udelay, mdelay, usleep_range, msleep, and msleep_interrubtible the question "How do I just wait 1 ms for my hardware to latch?" has the non-intuitive "best" answer: usleep_range(1000,1500) This patch is followed by a series of checkpatch additions that seek to help kernel hackers pick the best delay. Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Cc: apw@canonical.com Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1280786467-26999-3-git-send-email-ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>		2010-08-04 11:00:45 +02:00
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00-INDEX	Documentation/timers/: split txt and source files	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
highres.txt
hpet_example.c	Documentation/timers/hpet_example: drop duplicate header files	2010-05-24 07:30:56 -07:00
hpet.txt	Documentation/timers/: split txt and source files	2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
hrtimers.txt
Makefile	Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: only build on X86	2010-06-01 10:05:19 -07:00
timer_stats.txt	trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes	2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
timers-howto.txt	Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt	2010-08-04 11:00:45 +02:00