Re: Need help for making a driver sleep during 1 second

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
24 Oct 1996 23:38:51 GMT

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By author: JF Martinez <jfm@sidney.remcomp.fr>
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>
> Now there are people who are being bitten by this when installing Linux.
>
> I have reported this several times since well before 2.0 was released
> but nobody cared. Now I will try to fix this myself but I need to know
> how to make the driver sleep and retry 1 second later.
>

Use a kernel timer.

-hpa

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