Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2014 19:55:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Chase Southwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in |
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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.
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