linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes

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Date:	Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:30:55 +0300
From:	"Shem Multinymous" <multinymous@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Robert Love" <rlove@...ve.org>,
	"Jean Delvare" <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hdaps-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes

Hi Pavel,

On 8/7/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.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...)


> This actually changes userland interface... but that is probably okay.

Those two sysfs attributes were bogus. If anything used them (which I
very much doubt), it's a good thing we broke it.

OK on the rest.

  Shem
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