Re: [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup

Philip Blundell
2001-11-06T21:38:25Z

In message <20011106141521.R3957@lynx.no>, Andreas Dilger writes:
>On Nov 06, 2001 21:04 +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
>> In eexpress.c I also turned absolute jiffies number into multiples of HZ,
>> yet the resulting timeout values still do not always seem reasonable to
>> me.
>
>I agree. It seems very ugly. I looked at a few drivers which loop 1 or 2
>jiffies, but to busy-loop for 1/10th of a second, or even 20 seconds
>is terribly bad.

Those timeouts are only a last resort. If the card is working properly the loop will terminate much sooner.

p.