[PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Ignore mdelay instead of udelay

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Aug 27 20:38:36 CEST 2025


Whereas in Linux, on ARM there is the notion of delay operations and
mdelay and udelay are not the same, here we just have udelay and mdelay
is a trivial wrapper. Tell checkpatch to not complain here.

Reported-by: Bhimeswararao Matsa <bhimeswararao.matsa at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
---
 .checkpatch.conf | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.checkpatch.conf b/.checkpatch.conf
index c368d4147260..0827f347f6e5 100644
--- a/.checkpatch.conf
+++ b/.checkpatch.conf
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 # Not Linux, so we don't recommend usleep_range() over udelay()
 --ignore USLEEP_RANGE
 
+# We also do not have a functionally different mdelay() and udelay()
+--ignore LONG_UDELAY
+
 # Ignore networking block comment style
 --ignore NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE
 
-- 
2.43.0



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