Re: [PATCH] i.MX31: mxc-rnga: implement waiting for data in driver

[Michael Thalmeier]

On 2012-02-21 14:29, Fabio Estevam wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Michael Thalmeier
> <michael.thalmeier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> -static int mxc_rnga_data_present(struct hwrng *rng)
>> +static int mxc_rnga_data_present(struct hwrng *rng, int wait)
> 
> This looks good, but ...
> 
>>  {
>> -       int level;
>> +       int level, i;
>>        void __iomem *rng_base = (void __iomem *)rng->priv;
>>
>> -       /* how many random numbers is in FIFO? [0-16] */
>> -       level = ((__raw_readl(rng_base + RNGA_STATUS) &
>> -                       RNGA_STATUS_LEVEL_MASK) >> 8);
>> +       for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
> 
> Why the magic "20" here?
> 
> It would be better to add a proper timeout mechanism instead, such as
> time_after(jiffies, timeout)
> 


I am absolutely with you.
The point is only that this is the behaviour of nearly all hw_random
drivers, and I basically just copied it over into this driver.


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