checkpatch: Add warnings for use of mdelay()

Discourage the use of mdelay(), and use msleep() instead.

Change-Id: I99f44fc632df4b371bc8633005d57c220ece1001
Signed-off-by: Israel Schlesinger <israels@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 084af58596758be6e51ef060aefa2cd622dc9205)
Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@codeaurora.org>
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Israel Schlesinger 2010-07-21 13:34:18 -07:00 • committed by Raghavendra Rao Ananta
commit 3c69b66bf4

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@ -5741,6 +5741,12 @@ sub process {
"Comparing get_jiffies_64() is almost always wrong; prefer time_after64, time_before64 and friends\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check the patch for use of mdelay
if ($line =~ /\bmdelay\s*\(/) {
WARN("MDELAY",
"use of mdelay() found: msleep() is the preferred API.\n" . $herecurr );
}
# warn about #ifdefs in C files
# if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
# print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";