Re: [PATCH] EHCI pci-quirks.c: wait for BIOS handoff too long

[Steven Noonan]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Brownell wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 03 November 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>
>>> That tells us nothing about the original reason for choosing the 5000
>>> value, and what if any impact lowering the value has on those who thought
>>> 5000 was needed.
>>
>> You mean, the source code should have a comment about that?
>
> I was thinking changeset description (email body), but source code comment
> works too.
>
>        Jeff
>

I really need to start getting into the habit of 'reply to all'.
Apologies for the extra email, Jeff:



 Sorry, I should really be more verbose in the commit log.

 The five second delay is really quite irritating to have to deal with
 every boot up, and I very seriously doubt any non-broken bios takes
 more than a second to do the actual handoff.

 - Steven


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