On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Jan Pedersen wrote: > When using the cfi (common flash interface) driver, every word written to > the flash chips is followed by a operation complete poll. This poll is > intended to have a timeout of 1 ms. However this timeout is calculated by > HZ/1000, which happends to be 0 because HZ < 1000. The result of this is > that there will be just one poll for operation complete. If this single poll > fails, the kernel panics. This patch increases this timeout to HZ (1 > second). This is far more than needed, but is preferred over a panic. This > fix is well tested and completely avoids the panic. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Pedersen <jp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Patch looks good to me - but this code isn't maintained by linux-mips.org, so you may want to resend your patches here: MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES P: David Woodhouse M: dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx W: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ L: linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx S: Maintained Thanks anyway, Ralf
