Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:55:48 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: vpd handle longer delays in access |
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:26:05 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0700 > Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote: > > > > > What is a good way to say "i am polling for a while"? > > > can you take a fixed time delay? > > or use cond_resched() cond_resched sounds like the best suggestion. The problem is that this code needs to deal with hardware that could be fast, or slow depending on how the device is implemented.
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