On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:29:49PM +0200, Martin Sperl wrote: > Approaches I can think of to solve the issue: > * accept this fact as a reality - drivers should be able to handle > such situations in a well-behaved manner > * remove polling mode completely from the spi-bcm2835 driver > * remove the timeout code when polling > * make the timeout a warning > * set the timeout to something much longer say 200ms > * stop the system from interrupting (either scheduler or interrupt > handler) for the next 30us or the calculated timeout-period. > Maybe by holding a spinlock (or similar) / disabling interrupts / > ...? > * others
> So the question is: which approach should get implemented? Running without a timeout doesn't feel safe - the standard thing here is to busy wait for a short period then fall back to something that sleeps if that times out.
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