Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: fbtft: Replace udelay with preferred usleep_range | From | "John B. Wyatt IV" <> | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:03:55 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 19:40 +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:37:18 +0200 (CEST) > Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr> wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, Soumyajit Deb wrote: > > > > > I had the same doubt the other day about the replacement of > > > udelay() with > > > usleep_range(). The corresponding range for the single argument > > > value of > > > udelay() is quite confusing as I couldn't decide the range. But > > > as much as I > > > noticed checkpatch.pl gives warning for replacing udelay() with > > > usleep_range() by checking the argument value of udelay(). In the > > > documentation, it is written udelay() should be used for a sleep > > > time of at > > > most 10 microseconds but between 10 microseconds and 20 > > > milliseconds, > > > usleep_range() should be used. > > > I think the range is code specific and will depend on what range > > > is > > > acceptable and doesn't break the code. > > > Please correct me if I am wrong. > > > > The range depends on the associated hardware. > > John, by the way, here you could have checked the datasheet of this > LCD > controller. It's a pair of those: > https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/ks0108b.pdf >
No I have not. This datasheet is a little over my head honestly.
What would you recommend to get familiar with datasheets like this?
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