On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ten million is close enough to infinity for me to assume that we broke the
> driver and that's never going to terminate.
> 

how about this? doesn't break things on my pa8800:

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c 
b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
index 463f119..ef01cb1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
@@ -1037,10 +1037,13 @@ restart_test:
        /*
         *  Wait 'til done (with timeout)
         */
-       for (i=0; i<SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT; i++)
+       do {    
                if (INB(np, nc_istat) & (INTF|SIP|DIP))
                        break;
-       if (i>=SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
+               msleep(10);
+       } while (i++ < SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT);
+
+       if (i >= SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
                printf ("CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.\n");
                return (0x20);
        }
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h 
b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
index ad07880..85c483b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
 /*
  *  Misc.
  */
-#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (10000000)
+#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (1000)
 #define BUS_8_BIT      0
 #define BUS_16_BIT     1
 
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