[Prism54-devel] Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2 17/38] net/islpci_dev: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()

[Jeff Garzik]

Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> At 09:55 01.10.2004 -0700, Greg scribeth:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:04:27AM +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
>> > At 00:15 01.10.2004 -0400, Jeff scribeth:
>> > >I would rather see an msleep implementation in 2.4.x...
>> >
>> > Hear, hear.
>> > And can we PLEASE have a
>> > "#define HAVE_MSLEEP"  in delay.h ?!!!
>> > (2.4. AND 2.6)
>>
>> No, this is not how the kernel source tree works, sorry.
> 
> 
> Well it happened with netdev_priv  ;-)
> (HAVE_NETDEV_PRIV)


Net driver API is intentionally more friendly to cross-version kernel 
compat than the kernel as a whole ;-)

	Jeff