>On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:41, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> i agree. i can't see why it doesn't, unless the LONG_WAIT delays us
>> for so long that it looks like a freeze ...
>
>It doesn't, as after hitting the magic sysrq sigterm sequence I can see
>the hdsp_fifo_wait's snd_printks appear on a regular basis (looks like
>120 bpm). This is not surprising as HDSP_LONG_WAIT is supposed to last
>500ms. In fact the timeout should occur  24413/2/60 = circa 186 minutes
>later. The code is :
>
>for (i = 0; i < 24413; ++i) {
>       hdsp_write(hdsp, HDSP_fifoData, firmware_ptr[i]);
>       if (hdsp_fifo_wait (hdsp, 127, HDSP_LONG_WAIT)) {
>               snd_printk ("timeout during firmware loading\n");
>               return -EIO;
>       }
>}
>
>If hdsp_fifo_wait fails and returns -1 we go through the whole loop,
>thus effectively waiting almost 3 hours.

eh? if it returns any non-zero value, we return from
hdsp_initialize_firmware() with -EIO, surely?

--p


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