Received from Mark Salyzyn

Remove superfluous code, optimize code, harden code, cast code, correct
some text, use msleep instead of schedule_timeout_interruptible. No
bugs.
Signed-off-by: NMark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>