timeout nonsense [was Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes]

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > On 8/7/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >> +     int total, ret;
> > >> +     for (total=READ_TIMEOUT_MSECS; total>0; total-=RETRY_MSECS) {
> > >
> > >Could we go from 0 to timeout, not the other way around?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > (That's actually vanilla hdapsd code, moved around...)
> 
> Maybe you could convert that to sth. like this along the way?
> 
> int ret;
> unsigned long timeout = jiffies + msec_to_jiffies(READ_TIMEOUT_MSECS);
> for (;;) {
> 	ret = thinkpad_ec_lock();
> 	if (ret)
> 		return ret;
> 	ret = __hdaps_update(0);
> 	thinkpad_ec_unlock();
> 
> 	if (ret != -EBUSY)
> 		return ret;

[imagine TIMEOUT_MSEC pause here, SMM does its job?]

> 	if (time_after(timeout, jiffies))
> 		break;
> 	msleep(RETRY_MSECS);
> }
> return ret;
> 
> Rationale: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/14/133 - it's also listed on the
> kerneljanitors todo list.

Please don't. New variant is _wrong_. Someone should tell
kerneljanitors :-) ... aha, and Linus.

Minimal fix would be to run one more iteration after timeout.
								Pavel

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