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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, rob@netxen.com,
	Milan Bag <mbag@netxen.com>, Wen Xiong <wenxiong@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] NetXen: Graceful teardown of interface and hardware upon module unload
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:27:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46871F0B.6020801@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab901500706301849h5f8e25c7k8e2c0a8f04dd3198@mail.gmail.com>

Dhananjay Phadke wrote:
> This stage is safe to bail out on signal. It's initializing about a
> hundred registers
> and trying to guaranty by retrying, so can get stretched too much on 
> faulty h/w.

This implies that you have -add- code to check for and handle signals at 
each delay point.  Don't bother.  Too much code bloat for negligable gain.

It is better just to remove the _interruptible, for many reasons.

	Jeff




      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-01  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-30 20:38 [PATCH 0/3] NetXen: Bug fixes for multiport and blade adapters dhananjay.phadke
2007-06-30 20:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] NetXen: Fix issue of MSI not working correctly dhananjay.phadke
2007-06-30 20:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] NetXen: Support per PCI-function interrupt mask registers dhananjay.phadke
2007-06-30 22:17   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-30 20:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] NetXen: Graceful teardown of interface and hardware upon module unload dhananjay.phadke
2007-06-30 22:12   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-30 22:43     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-01  1:49       ` Dhananjay Phadke
2007-07-01  3:27         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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