[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Make sleep shell command is reliable for all architectures

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20080520140054.9565865407 at mcmullan-linux.hq.netapp.com> you wrote:
> On some architectures (MIPS is a good example), the timebase
> rolls over every few seconds. This patch alters the 'sleep'

Well, even if this happens, it should not cause get_timer()  to  show
such problems. get_timer() returns an "unsigned long" and is counting
in milliseconds, so a wrap-around should take about 50 days.

> shell command to use a total counter of the udelay(100)
> sleeps instead of an end time marker to determine the end
> of the sleep, making the 'sleep' command capable of sleeping
> for any number of seconds on all architectures.

I tend to reject this patch because I think we should fix  the  cause
of  the  problems  rather than the symptoms - there are more areas in
the code that rely on sane behaviour of the get_timer() functione.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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