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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ks7010: fix wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout return handling
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:54:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160725205402.GC1698@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469474510-15551-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:21:50PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout return 0 on timeout and 
> -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted. The check for 
> !wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() would report an interrupt
> as timeout. Further, while HZ/50 will work most of the time it could 

Wouldn't it interpret -ERESTARTSYS as *no timeout*?

Anyway, the plain !0 comparison for me clearly shows that
'interruptible' was more copy&pasted then really planned or supported.
If it was, it would need to cancel something. Also, 20ms is pretty hard
to cancel for a user ;) Given all that and the troubles we had with
'interruptible' in the I2C subsystem, I'd much vote for dropping
interruptible here.

> fail for HZ < 50, so this is switched to msecs_to_jiffies(20).

Rest looks good, thanks!


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-25 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-25 19:21 [PATCH] staging: ks7010: fix wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout return handling Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-07-25 20:54 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2016-07-26  6:43   ` Nicholas Mc Guire

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