* Rene Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The trouble there is that unless you poll the bloody thing like mad
> too much of the Q subchannels passes below you and you need a huge
> number of retries to get anything out of it. I noticed when I started
> adding audio bits that the driver took full seconds to complete some
> audio requests while the old driver was snappy in that regard. When I
> replaced our sleeping loop with a busy-wait same as the original the
> snappyness returned and moreover, reading the TOC from the CD went
> from something close to a minute to approximately a second. Thought
> that minute was just because I was dealing with an old junk 1-speed
> drive...
ouch ...
then i guess the right approach is to not use jiffies but to use a
calculated number of udelay(10) calls or so.
Ingo
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