linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/17] powerpc: Add PFO support to the VIO bus

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 10:32:07 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Kent Yoder <key@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/17] powerpc: Add PFO support to the VIO bus

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 07:58 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Having the timeout and retries in this function is the wrong thing to do.
> > We'll resubmit this without the loop and the caller will be responsible for
> > retrying the operations.
> >
> > I would rather have the caller cede the processor or alter thread
> > priority where appropriate than doing that in this function.  I don't
> > think this should be done in this crypto driver.
> 
> That sounds right indeed... as long as the upper crypto layer has a
> concept of "try again later"... if it doesn't it will result in random
> funny failures :-)

Ping ?

So I'm merging 1 to 5 (ie, up to and including the hwrng driver). I will
still merge the rest if you send a fix for that in the next day or so
but not much longer.

Cheers,
Ben.


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