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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Ulrich Hecht <ulrich.hecht+renesas@gmail.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 5/6] max9260: add driver for i2c over GMSL passthrough
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:32:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4224346.LEY5A6FZfI@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO3366yOpH3Q0J9YbCh2S_L8yLevag-FaVHNngvD3WoquXzp6w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ulrich,

On Wednesday 16 Aug 2017 15:23:52 Ulrich Hecht wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> wrote:
> >> +{
> >> +     wait_event_interruptible_timeout(dev->rx_wq,
> >> +             dev->rx_state <= RX_FRAME_ERROR,
> >> +             HZ/2);
> > 
> > I'd suggest to drop the interruptible. It can be done but it is usually
> > not trivial to abort the operation gracefully when a signal comes in.
> > 
> > Also, timeout is superfluous since you don't get the return value?
> 
> Be that as it may, I still want a timeout; wouldn't wait_event() block
> forever?

I think that Wolfram's point is that you should report the timeout error up to 
the upper layers.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-17 15:24 [RFC v2 0/6] serdev multiplexing support Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-17 15:24 ` [RFC v2 1/6] mux: include compiler.h from mux/consumer.h Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-31  9:02   ` Peter Rosin
2017-07-31  9:56     ` Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-31 11:22   ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-07-17 15:24 ` [RFC v2 2/6] serdev: add method to set parity Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-18 23:08   ` Rob Herring
2017-07-31 10:55   ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-07-17 15:24 ` [RFC v2 3/6] serdev: add multiplexer support Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-18 23:06   ` Rob Herring
2017-08-16 13:23     ` Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-19  7:22   ` Peter Rosin
2017-07-17 15:24 ` [RFC v2 4/6] serial: core: support deferring serdev controller registration Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-19  3:24   ` Rob Herring
2017-07-17 15:24 ` [RFC v2 5/6] max9260: add driver for i2c over GMSL passthrough Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-18  6:51   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-19 15:00   ` Wolfram Sang
2017-08-16 13:23     ` Ulrich Hecht
2017-08-16 13:32       ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2017-07-31 11:13   ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-08-16 13:23     ` Ulrich Hecht
2017-08-16 13:30       ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-07-17 15:24 ` [RFC v2 6/6] ARM: dts: blanche: add SCIF1 and MAX9260 deserializer Ulrich Hecht
2017-07-18  6:52   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-31 11:20   ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-07-18 23:14 ` [RFC v2 0/6] serdev multiplexing support Rob Herring

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