Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: vpd handle longer delays in access

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:26:05 -0700
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0700
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What is a good way to say "i am polling for a while"?
> 
> 
> can you take a fixed time delay?
> 
> or use cond_resched()
cond_resched sounds like the best suggestion.  The problem is that this
code needs to deal with hardware that could be fast, or slow depending
on how the device is implemented.  
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