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Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ath9k: Fix build error on ARM

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On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 19:40 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 February 2014 08:36:36 Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 08:03 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > > Joe, look in linux/arch/arm/include/asm/delay.h. The macro udelay
> > > cannot handle large values because of lost-of-precision.
> > > 
> > > IMHO udelay on ARM is broken, because it also cannot work with fast
> > > ARM processors (where bogomips >= 3355, which is in sight now). It's
> > > just not broken enought that someone did something against it ...   so
> > > the current kludge is good enought.
> > 
> > Maybe something like this would be better?
> > 
> 
> I actually like the fact that we get link errors for insane 'udelay'
> times.

For static values yes, for computed values no.

This emits a warning/dump_stack on the non-static
values.  It could also emit some similar #warning
on static values > insane too.



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