[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <1156198406.18887.81.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:13:25 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Signedness issue in drivers/net/3c515.c
Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 14:05 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> /* Wait for the stall to complete. */
> for (i = 20; i >= 0; i--)
> if ((inw(ioaddr + EL3_STATUS) & CmdInProgress) == 0)
> break;
>
> Your fix will convert this indefinit wait into a bounded one. It might
> cause the driver to malfunction.
The change is correct. The docs guarantee it can't take that long.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists