From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267737AbUHEP76 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:59:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267769AbUHEP5l (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:57:41 -0400 Received: from ylpvm01-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.32]:50877 "EHLO ylpvm01.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267759AbUHEP5G (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:57:06 -0400 From: David Brownell To: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] proper bios handoff in ehci-hcd Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:49:43 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Pete Zaitcev , Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com, whbeers@mbio.ncsu.edu, Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <7A8F92187EF7A249BF847F1BF4903C046304CF@ausx2kmpc103.aus.amer.dell.com> <20040715093704.GA30351@suse.de> <20040805133914.GA8844@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040805133914.GA8844@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408050849.43463.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 05 August 2004 06:39, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 13, David Brownell wrote: > > > > > Instead, how about: (a) longer timeout, 5 seconds to match OHCI's > > > absurdly long default there; (b) change that "handoff failed" message > > > to add "continuing anyway"; and (c) return 0 as you do, which I'm > > > expecting is the key part of that patch. > > David, what is the status with this bios problem? > Can a patch like this patch go in? > What could we lose if the error is ignored? I submitted a very similar patch yesterday, not yet merged but closer to what I described: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg26725.html