On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:52 AM, Chase Southwood wrote: > 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> > --- > > 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. > > 5: udelay for 10u, instead of 1u. > > 6: Scrap udelay entirely, in favor of cpu_relax. Include asm/processor.h > in order to use cpu_relax. > > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 12 +++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 11 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..fe2f434 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c > @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ > #include <linux/interrupt.h> > #include <linux/sched.h> > #include <linux/delay.h> > +#include <asm/processor.h> > #include "8255.h" > #include "mite.h" > #include "comedi_fc.h" > @@ -687,12 +688,21 @@ 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(500); Did you build this? I think you meant to use msecs_to_jiffies(). Regards, Hartley _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel