Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:20:47PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2006.08.07 19:30:55 +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> > Hi Pavel,
> > 
> > On 8/7/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> +     int total, ret;
> > >> +     for (total=READ_TIMEOUT_MSECS; total>0; total-=RETRY_MSECS) {
> > >
> > >Could we go from 0 to timeout, not the other way around?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > (That's actually vanilla hdapsd code, moved around...)
> 
> Maybe you could convert that to sth. like this along the way?
> 
> int ret;
> unsigned long timeout = jiffies + msec_to_jiffies(READ_TIMEOUT_MSECS);
> for (;;) {
> 	ret = thinkpad_ec_lock();
> 	if (ret)
> 		return ret;

Just in case someone was going to cut and paste, this will return with
the ec_lock taken.

Cheers,
Muli
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