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

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Date:	Tue, 8 Aug 2006 01:26:25 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>
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

On Mon 2006-08-07 19:30:55, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> 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...)

Thanks for cleaning it up :-).

> >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.

Okay, just make sure you note this in the changelog.
								Pavel

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