Re: I made a patch and would like feedback/testers (drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c)

[Daniel Marjamäki]

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Daniel Marjamäki <daniel.marjamaki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > -     aztTimeOutCount = 0;
> > +     aztTimeOut = jiffies + 2;
>
>
> Different timeout based on HZ seems wrong.

Yes, but..

If I'd say "HZ/100", then all systems that uses my driver must have HZ>=200.

The way I do it:
All systems will give me a delay for at least a few ms.
I get the shortest timeout possible on each computer.



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