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SubjectRe: wavelan has fatal error with 2.4.0 (but worked in 2.4.0-test12)
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:48:47PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > It is a bug in the driver.
> >
> > Please check again the code and point me the invalid
> > udelay(). You will realise that there is no delay in the driver that
> > is longer than 100ms.
>
> The udelay limit is set a lot lower than 100mS. It has to be somewhat lower
> otherwise you have to do two levels of loops which will throw small udelay
> timings a fair whack.

Sorry, I mixed up my units. All the delays are lower than 100us.

> > The bug is that udelay() can't be passed a variable but only a
> > constant. Therefore bug in udelay().
>
> Sounds like a compiler bug.
>
> #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \
> ((n) > 20000 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * 0x10c6ul)) : \
> __udelay(n))
>
> non constants are covered.

Therefore, compiler bug. Ouch !

Jean
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