On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 09:05 +0000, Mischa Jonker wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> >> + while (1) {
> >infinite loop with bad hardware?
> >Perhaps a jiffies timeout?
>
> What do you suggest? Add a counter and limit the maximum number of iterations to an arbitrary number (say 1000)?
Yes, something like that.
Or something like:
unsigned long timeout = jiffies + somevalue;
while (time_before(jiffies, timeout) {
etc...
}
cheers, Joe
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