Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

[Bill Davidsen]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 10:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Cal Peake wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Andrew! Indeed your suspicions are correct. Adding in all the 
> > > debugging moved the problem around, it now shows itself when probing 
> > > parport. Upon further investigation reverting the commit below seems to 
> > > have nixed the problem.
> >
> > Thanks. Just out of interest, does this patch fix it instead?
>
>
> Oops,  never thought that size would be zero coming in.  I originally
> had it as a while() instead of a do while but thought that I could speed
> it up if the first word succeeded.  Sorry for that. I blame it on it
> being late when I wrote it and trying several different ways. :-P

You are hardly the first person to implement the "it doesn't work right, 
but it sure is FAST!" algorithm.

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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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