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From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson)
To: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v3] PA Semi PWRficient Ethernet driver
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:16:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070131151642.GA5318@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701311344.31692.netdev@axxeo.de>

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:44:31PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:

> You might want to write these loops like that:
[...]

> That way you:
> - Let you give other processes a chance to run, 
>   while you wait for your hardware state to change 
>   (if your hardware can tolerate these latencies).
> - can somehow handle hardware failure and at least give the user a clue
>   what is happening.

Yep, makes sense. I'll implement something like it.


Thanks,

-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29  6:08 [PATCH] PA Semi PWRficient Ethernet driver Olof Johansson
2007-01-29 18:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-30  1:41   ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-30  2:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 20:53       ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-29 22:35 ` Francois Romieu
2007-01-30  1:41   ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-30 10:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 15:34       ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-30 21:45     ` Francois Romieu
2007-01-31  4:52       ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-30  1:44 ` [PATCH] [v2]PA " Olof Johansson
2007-01-31  5:44   ` [PATCH] [v3] PA " Olof Johansson
2007-01-31 10:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-01  3:40       ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-31 12:44     ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-31 15:16       ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-01-31 18:38     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-01  3:20       ` Olof Johansson
2007-02-01  3:43     ` [PATCH] [v4] " Olof Johansson
2007-02-02 13:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 10:03 ` [PATCH] " Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 15:36   ` Olof Johansson

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