From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: "Sergey Kubushin" <ksi@cyberbills.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:15:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22221.988211757@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104251459.f3PEx8s4009505@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <200104251459.f3PEx8s4009505@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl said:
> AFAIR, this means that the driver is using an udelay() with a much
> too large argument. Break it up into several shorter ones, or use
> mdelay().
That isn't necessarily the case. This code can break even with _correct_
arguments to udelay().
This is because despite the number of times this kind of thing has bitten
us, we _still_ haven't learned our lesson w.r.t. depending on specifications
rather than the observed behaviour of this week's compiler with this
particular phase of the moon.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-25 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-24 0:14 Linux 2.4.3ac13 Alan Cox
2001-04-24 0:47 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-24 23:00 ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-04-24 23:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-25 14:59 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-25 15:15 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-04-24 23:32 ` Michael Meissner
2001-04-24 23:36 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-04-24 23:45 ` Michael Meissner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-25 1:10 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
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