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DateMon, 21 Nov 2005 09:42:40 +0100
FromDaniel Marjamäki <>
SubjectRe: I made a patch and would like feedback/testers (drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c)

Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
> Convention in the kernel would be 
> 	aztTimeOut =  HZ / 100 ? : 1;
> to be at least one tick (works for HZ even below 100) and is at least 10ms. If 
> you wanted 2 ms then use
> 	aztTimeOut =  HZ / 500 ? : 1;
> which would give you at least 2ms
> 

Thank you Con for the feedback.

Hmm.. The minimum value should be 2, right?
Otherwise the loop could time out after only a few nanoseconds.. since the loop will then timeout immediately on a clock tick.
Or am I wrong?

Best regards,
Daniel Marjamäki



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