linux-kernel - Re: Infinite looping in omap2430.c USB driver

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Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:15:51 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Infinite looping in omap2430.c USB driver

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:39:49AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Hello `./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/usb/musb/omap2430.c`
> 
> omap2430_musb_set_vbus in omap2430.c contains:
> 
> 			while (musb_readb(musb->mregs, MUSB_DEVCTL) & 0x80) {
> 
> 				cpu_relax();
> 
> 				if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {
> 					dev_err(musb->controller,
> 					"configured as A device timeout");
> 					ret = -EINVAL;
> 					break;
> 				}
> 			}
> 
> having set
> 	unsigned long timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1000);

hehe, that's nasty. Please send a patch converting to a try count and a
udelay_range(), or something.

-- 
balbi

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