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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 10/11] scsi: fix bad use of udelay in atp870u.c
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:03:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109130308.bfde281e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109205835.GB5069@deprecation.cyrius.com>

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:58:35 +0100
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:

> * akpm@linux-foundation.org <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2009-01-09 12:28]:
> > The ACARD driver calls udelay() with a value > 2000, which leads to
> > to the following compilation error on ARM:
> >   ERROR: "__bad_udelay" [drivers/scsi/atp870u.ko] undefined!
> >   make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> > Fix this by using a combination of mdelay and udelay.
> 
> James already said that this patch is wrong,

Well, it's not "wrong" - it has no runtime effect - it just fixes the build.

> so I suggest you drop
> this patch. (Even if this will probably mean that this issue will
> never get addressed.)

shrug.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09 20:28 [patch 10/11] scsi: fix bad use of udelay in atp870u.c akpm
2009-01-09 20:58 ` Martin Michlmayr
2009-01-09 21:03   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-09 21:21     ` James Bottomley
2009-01-10 15:50       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-24  7:49       ` [PATCH/RFC v2] [SCSI] atp870u: Fix bad use of udelay Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-24  7:49         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-24 21:18         ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-24 21:18           ` Andrew Morton

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