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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in
    Hi Greg,

    >On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

    >>On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:43:04PM -0600, Chase Southwood wrote:
    >>This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent
    >>infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a
    >>function (s626_debi_transfer()) which is called from critical sections,
    >>so comedi_timeout() is unusable for them, and an iterative timeout is
    >>used instead. For the while loops in a context where comedi_timeout() is
    >>allowed, a new callback function, s626_send_dac_eoc(), has been defined
    >>to evaluate the conditions that the while loops are testing.  The new
    >>callback employs a switch statement based on a simple new enum so that
    >>it is usable for all of the different conditions tested in while loops
    >>in s626_send_dac().  The proper comedi_timeout() calls are then used.
    >
    >Your subject seems to be missing a word at the end of it :(

    Well what a silly problem to have :( I don't know what happened there
    but I'll fix the subject and send it out again.

    Thanks,
    Chase
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