On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:34:10AM +0000, kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Martin Sperl <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This resulted in the use of polling mode when other approaches > (dma or interrupts) would have been more appropriate. Please describe the actual issue and how it's being fixed in the commit message. In this case the fix appears to be converting the timeout variable to a long long which will make things better but obviously isn't a complete fix for overflows - presumably the ideal thing here is to handle saturation better?
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