mdelay(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the mdelay(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨

mdelay — Inserting a delay based on milliseconds with busy waiting 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole synopsis is literally this:

mdelay (n );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• n — requested delay in milliseconds ⏱️

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

See udelay for the basic information about mdelay and it's variants 👀

⚠️ Please double check, whether mdelay is the right way to go or whether a refactoring of the code is the better variant to be able to use msleep instead. like, fr fr, check before you commit to it 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/linux/delay.h
• usleep_range(9)
• usleep_range_idle(9)
• ssleep(9)
• fsleep(9)

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kisses bestie, this one’s from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it’s literally the mdelay(9) page — bye 💅💖✨