At 7:25 PM -0800 2000/3/20, Mike Smith wrote:
> Not that I consider this particuarly optimal; busy-waiting for the
> controller is a terrible waste of the host CPU. A better solution would
> probably defer the command and try again a short time later, but let's
> see if this works first.
Since this is a device driver, I guess you can't usleep() and
then check again? Is there anything else useful you could be doing
during that period of time -- other than busy waiting?
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