On Monday 10 April 2006 10:19, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> [Full quote and readded CC adresses. My fault, pressed wrong button]
>
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Monday 10 April 2006 10:03, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 10. April 2006 07:49 schrieben Sie:
> > > > On Monday 10 April 2006 08:44, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > > > I also spotted two bugs in the process, patches
> > > > > for those will follow.
> > > >
> > > > ahd_delay(usec) is buggy. Just think how would it work
> > > > with usec == 1024*100 + 1...
> > >
> > > This is unneeded. The biggest argument this function is ever called with
> > > is 1000.
> >
> > I know.
> >
> > > I would suggest to delete this function completely. If one ever has to
> > > wait for a longer period mdelay() is the right function to call.
> >
> > I am leaving it up to maintainer to decide. After all, the driver
> > is for multiple OSes, other OS may lack mdelay().
>
> The comment says about multiple milliseconds sleeps which just don't happen.
# grep -r ah._delay.[A-Z] .
./aic7xxx_core.c: ahc_delay(AHC_BUSRESET_DELAY);
./aic79xx_core.c: ahd_delay(AHD_BUSRESET_DELAY);
./aic79xx_core.c: ahd_delay(AHD_BUSRESET_DELAY);
I am not sure that this constant won't be redefined to something large.
If maintainer knows better, he can take care of it.
I just fixed an obvious latent bug.
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vda
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