This patch for ni_mio_common.c changes out a while loop for a timeout, which is preferred. Signed-off-by: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@xxxxxxxxx> --- OK, here's another go at it. Hopefully everything looks more correct this time. Greg, I've followed the pattern you gave me, and I really appreciate all of the tips! As always, just let me know if there are still things that need adjusting (especially length of timeout, udelay, etc.). Thanks, Chase Southwood 2: Changed from simple clean-up to swapping a timeout in for a while loop. 3: Removed extra counter variable, and added error checking. 4: No longer using counter variable, using jiffies instead. drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c index 457b884..882b249 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c @@ -687,12 +687,21 @@ static void ni_clear_ai_fifo(struct comedi_device *dev) { const struct ni_board_struct *board = comedi_board(dev); struct ni_private *devpriv = dev->private; + unsigned long timeout; if (board->reg_type == ni_reg_6143) { /* Flush the 6143 data FIFO */ ni_writel(0x10, AIFIFO_Control_6143); /* Flush fifo */ ni_writel(0x00, AIFIFO_Control_6143); /* Flush fifo */ - while (ni_readl(AIFIFO_Status_6143) & 0x10) ; /* Wait for complete */ + /* Wait for complete */ + timeout = jiffies + msec_to_jiffies(100); + while (ni_readl(AIFIFO_Status_6143) & 0x10) { + if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) { + comedi_error(dev, "FIFO flush timeout."); + break; + } + udelay(1); + } } else { devpriv->stc_writew(dev, 1, ADC_FIFO_Clear); if (board->reg_type == ni_reg_625x) { -- 1.8.4.2 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel