Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in s626.c

2014-03-15 Thread Chase Southwood
On Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:26 AM, gre...@linuxfoundation.org gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Chase Southwood wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:26 AM, Ian Abbott abbo...@mev.co.uk wrote: On 2014-03-09 04:00, Chase Southwood wrote: This patch

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in s626.c

2014-03-14 Thread Chase Southwood
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:26 AM, Ian Abbott abbo...@mev.co.uk wrote: On 2014-03-09 04:00, Chase Southwood wrote: This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a function (s626_debi_transfer()) which is

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in s626.c

2014-03-14 Thread gre...@linuxfoundation.org
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Chase Southwood wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:26 AM, Ian Abbott abbo...@mev.co.uk wrote: On 2014-03-09 04:00, Chase Southwood wrote: This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in s626.c

2014-03-11 Thread Ian Abbott
On 2014-03-09 04:00, Chase Southwood wrote: This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a function (s626_debi_transfer()) which is called from critical sections, so comedi_timeout() is unusable for them, and

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in

2014-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:43:04PM -0600, Chase Southwood wrote: This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a function (s626_debi_transfer()) which is called from critical sections, so comedi_timeout() is

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in

2014-03-08 Thread Chase Southwood
Hi Greg, On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00 PM, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:43:04PM -0600, Chase Southwood wrote: This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a function

[PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in s626.c

2014-03-08 Thread Chase Southwood
This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a function (s626_debi_transfer()) which is called from critical sections, so comedi_timeout() is unusable for them, and an iterative timeout is used instead. For the

[PATCH v3 1/2] Staging: comedi: convert while loops to timeouts in

2014-03-07 Thread Chase Southwood
This patch changes a handful of while loops to timeouts to prevent infinite looping on hardware failure. A couple such loops are in a function (s626_debi_transfer()) which is called from critical sections, so comedi_timeout() is unusable for them, and an iterative timeout is used instead. For the