linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EHCI pci-quirks.c: wait for BIOS handoff too long

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Message-ID: <f488382f0811032353q1eb5b7fdjf617f3a5ea96b1f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:53:53 -0800
From:	"Steven Noonan" <steven@...inklabs.net>
To:	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	"David Brownell" <david-b@...bell.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alan Stern" <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EHCI pci-quirks.c: wait for BIOS handoff too long

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:
> David Brownell wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 03 November 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>
>>> That tells us nothing about the original reason for choosing the 5000
>>> value, and what if any impact lowering the value has on those who thought
>>> 5000 was needed.
>>
>> You mean, the source code should have a comment about that?
>
> I was thinking changeset description (email body), but source code comment
> works too.
>
>        Jeff
>

I really need to start getting into the habit of 'reply to all'.
Apologies for the extra email, Jeff:



 Sorry, I should really be more verbose in the commit log.

 The five second delay is really quite irritating to have to deal with
 every boot up, and I very seriously doubt any non-broken bios takes
 more than a second to do the actual handoff.

 - Steven


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