netdev - Re: [PATCH] tms380tr: fix long delays in initialization

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Date:	Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:39:02 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tms380tr: fix long delays in initialization

> > tms380tr driver tries to use udelay (meaning busy loop) for several half 
> > second delays during hardware initialization. Crazy overly long busy 
> > wait delays mean no delay at all so driver initialization fails without 
> > waiting. Fix it by using msleep() for long delays and leave it to 
> > udelay() for short delays.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
> 
> You can't use msleep() here because this code can be invoked
> from interrupts and thus cannot sleep.

I checked these two functions that contain long delays that I changed - 
tms380tr_bringup_diags() and tms380tr_init_adapter() - to be called only 
from tms380tr_chipset_init() that is only called from tms380tr_open() so 
no call paths from interrupts AFAICS. Short delyas from interrupt 
context are not changed in any way, they still use udelay().

-- 
Meelis Roos (mroos@...ux.ee)
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