Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | From | Daniel Drake <> | | Subject | [PATCH] OLPC: Don't retry EC commands forever | | Date | Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:17:19 +0100 (BST) |
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From: Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>
Avoids a potential infinite loop
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c index 37c49934..7472613 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ int olpc_ec_cmd(unsigned char cmd, unsigned char *inbuf, size_t inlen, unsigned long flags; int ret = -EIO; int i; + int restarts = 0; spin_lock_irqsave(&ec_lock, flags); @@ -169,7 +170,9 @@ restart: if (wait_on_obf(0x6c, 1)) { printk(KERN_ERR "olpc-ec: timeout waiting for" " EC to provide data!\n"); - goto restart; + if (restarts++ < 10) + goto restart; + goto err; } outbuf[i] = inb(0x68); pr_devel("olpc-ec: received 0x%x\n", outbuf[i]); -- 1.7.2.3
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