>On Monday, March 3, 2014 8:13 AM, Ian Abbott <abbo...@mev.co.uk> wrote:

>>On 2014-03-02 04:13, Chase Southwood wrote:
>>>On Friday, February 28, 2014 11:49 PM, Chase Southwood 
>>><chase.southw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> On Friday, February 28, 2014 11:26 AM, Ian Abbott <abbo...@mev.co.uk> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-02-28 07:35, Chase Southwood wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> In the case of s626_send_dac(), it doesn't seem to be used in any
>>>> critical sections, so it could make use of Hartley's comedi_timeout().
>>>>
>>>> Some of the timeout errors could be propagated, especially for
>>>> s626_send_dac() which is only reachable from very few paths.
>>>
>>>
>>> Awesome, I'll swap all of my timeouts out for comedi_timeout() in 
>>> s626_send_dac().
>>
>> Actually, after taking another look at this, I don't think that using 
>> comedi_timeout()
>> here is going to work, actually.
>> The context from which s626_send_dac() is called allows sleep all right, but 
>> readl() isn't
>> a comedi function and therefore it doesn't behave (in parameters or return 
>> values) as
>> the callback function parameter to comedi_timeout() requires.  So unless I'm 
>> missing
>> something particularly large here, I believe we'll have to do the timeouts 
>> here manually
>> as well.  Am I correct here, and if so, would you like the iteration based 
>> timeouts here
>> as well, or a sleep-based timeout similar to that employed by 
>> comedi_timeout()?
>
>The readl() could be done in a small callback function.  As the 
>different while loops are checking for different results from readl(), 
>It would need a different callback functions for each case, or some 
>creative use of the callback function's 'context' parameter.
>

Oh, of course.  I'll see if there's a reasonably clear way that I can use the
context parameter to use a single callback, if not I'll just define a few of 
them.

I'll send a patch with the new callback(s), and the timeouts in s626_send_dac()
switched to comedi_timeout(), and I'll add the timeouts that were left out last
time, and then another patch or patchset propagating everything upwards.

Thanks,
Chase

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