Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13 | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:15:57 +0100 |
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vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl said: > AFAIR, this means that the driver is using an udelay() with a much > too large argument. Break it up into several shorter ones, or use > mdelay().
That isn't necessarily the case. This code can break even with _correct_ arguments to udelay().
This is because despite the number of times this kind of thing has bitten us, we _still_ haven't learned our lesson w.r.t. depending on specifications rather than the observed behaviour of this week's compiler with this particular phase of the moon.
-- dwmw2
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