Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 10:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Cal Peake wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks Andrew! Indeed your suspicions are correct. Adding in all the 
>>>debugging moved the problem around, it now shows itself when probing 
>>>parport. Upon further investigation reverting the commit below seems to 
>>>have nixed the problem.
>>
>>Thanks. Just out of interest, does this patch fix it instead?
> 
> 
> Oops,  never thought that size would be zero coming in.  I originally
> had it as a while() instead of a do while but thought that I could speed
> it up if the first word succeeded.  Sorry for that. I blame it on it
> being late when I wrote it and trying several different ways. :-P

You are hardly the first person to implement the "it doesn't work right, 
but it sure is FAST!" algorithm.

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