From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: scottwood@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
smaclennan@pikatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] introduce macro spin_event_timeout()
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:49:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed82fe3e0905181549n6d9a5370rcc0e1f52cebdc2d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40905140910i194acbd7y34142720874b8299@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Grant Likely
<grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> In other words, write your patches which use it and submit the lot as
> a patch series with this patch as the first. =A0That gives some evidence
> that this macro will actually be used and useful.
This is going to be more difficult than you think. The problem is
that I don't have access to much hardware that uses drivers which can
take advantage of this macro. I can find one, maybe two examples, but
if I put a timeout that's too short, I might break some other platform
without knowing it.
--=20
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-05 21:53 [PATCH v7] introduce macro spin_event_timeout() Timur Tabi
2009-05-06 0:43 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-05-14 15:13 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-14 16:03 ` Timur Tabi
2009-05-14 16:10 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-18 22:49 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2009-05-19 2:58 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-19 3:57 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-05-19 12:30 ` Grant Likely
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