From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question on macros in wait.h
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:38:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303211238.02378.oliver@neukum.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7AB696.40204@pacbell.net>
Am Freitag, 21. März 2003 07:52 schrieb David Brownell:
> > is there some deeper reason that there's no macro for waiting
> > uninterruptablely with a timeout? Or did just nobody feel a need
> > as yet?
>
> Those macros seem to have moved out of <linux/sched.h> (2.4)
> and wait_event_interruptible_timeout() was added about 6
> months ago; the changelog entry says it was for smbfs.
> So I'd guess "no need yet".
>
> Here's an updated version of your patch, now using the same
> calling convention that the other two "can return 'early'"
> calls there provide. It's behaved in my testing, to replace the
> chaos in the usb synchronous call wrappers.
Much better than my version.
Regards
Oliver
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