Re: Choosing between DELAY(useconds) and pause()

On Thursday 22 September 2011 19:55:23 David Somayajulu wrote:
> It appears that the pause() function cannot be used in driver functions
> which are invoked early in the boot process. Is there is a kernel api
> which a device driver can use to determine whether to use pause() or
> DELAY(), for delays which are say greater than 10hz - may be even 1 hz ?

Maybe you want to use something like this:

if (cold)
 DELAY()
else
 pause()

In your code.

--HPS
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