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Subjecttimeout nonsense [was Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes]
Hi!

> > On 8/7/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >> + int total, ret;
> > >> + for (total=READ_TIMEOUT_MSECS; total>0; total-=RETRY_MSECS) {
> > >
> > >Could we go from 0 to timeout, not the other way around?
> >
> > Sure.
> > (That's actually vanilla hdapsd code, moved around...)
>
> Maybe you could convert that to sth. like this along the way?
>
> int ret;
> unsigned long timeout = jiffies + msec_to_jiffies(READ_TIMEOUT_MSECS);
> for (;;) {
> ret = thinkpad_ec_lock();
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> ret = __hdaps_update(0);
> thinkpad_ec_unlock();
>
> if (ret != -EBUSY)
> return ret;

[imagine TIMEOUT_MSEC pause here, SMM does its job?]

> if (time_after(timeout, jiffies))
> break;
> msleep(RETRY_MSECS);
> }
> return ret;
>
> Rationale: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/14/133 - it's also listed on the
> kerneljanitors todo list.

Please don't. New variant is _wrong_. Someone should tell
kerneljanitors :-) ... aha, and Linus.

Minimal fix would be to run one more iteration after timeout.
Pavel

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