On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > I was trying to keep to the current code as closely as possible, sorry. > It loops at 10 jiffy intervals up to 50 times, which is a total of 500 > jiffies. If the intent was to use milliseconds, though, then > interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() was a much more broken usage than I > thought. Trust me, if I thought milliseconds should be used, I would > have used them :)
I don't know what the original intent was, but it sure looks like 500 milliseconds. Shucks, the code might be old enough that it's supposed to be 5 seconds instead. No way to know without asking the author. Yes, this driver isn't in great shape. That's why I asked if there was a maintainer. > I have no means of testing this device or my patches, though. And, to be > frank, don't care too much about the device beyond a general feeling of > making Linux better :) I often feel the same way. See how much trouble you get into when you try to improve a stale driver, even just a little bit? :-) Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
