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SubjectRe: [PATCH] EHCI pci-quirks.c: wait for BIOS handoff too long
On Mon 2008-11-03 20:57:15, Steven Noonan wrote:
> Instead of waiting a painful 5000ms, quirk_usb_disable_ehci() now does a
> 1000ms loop to wait for the BIOS to acknowledge the handoff.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
> ---
> drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c b/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
> index ae6e70e..1968ba1 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static void __devinit quirk_usb_disable_ehci(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> /* if boot firmware now owns EHCI, spin till
> * it hands it over.
> */
> - msec = 5000;
> + msec = 1000;
> while ((cap & EHCI_USBLEGSUP_BIOS) && (msec > 0)) {
> tried_handoff = 1;
> msleep(10);

If the bios is non-broken, it will acknowledge hndover and it takes
10msec total.

If the bios is broken, 5 seconds may be handy.

Pavel
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