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Message-ID: <20090112154357.4f4d4f48@mjolnir.drzeus.cx>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:43:57 +0100
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@...eus.cx>
To:	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
Cc:	Yauhen Kharuzhy <jekhor@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Yauhen Kharuzhy <jekhor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s3cmci: Fix hangup in do_pio_write()

On Thu,  1 Jan 2009 13:09:04 +0200
Yauhen Kharuzhy <jekhor@...il.com> wrote:

> This commit fixes the regression what was added by commit
> 088a78af978d0c8e339071a9b2bca1f4cb368f30 "s3cmci: Support transfers
> which are not multiple of 32 bits."
> 
> fifo_free() now returns amount of available space in FIFO buffer in
> bytes. But do_pio_write() writes to FIFO 32-bit words. Condition for
> return from cycle is (fifo_free() == 0), but when fifo has 1..3 bytes of
> free space then this condition will never be true and system hangs.
> 
> This patch changes condition in the while() to (fifo_free() > 3).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yauhen Kharuzhy <jekhor@...il.com>

Any objections here Ben? An Acked-by would be nice.

Rgds
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