Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/2] ipaq.c timing parameters

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:46:19 +0200
Frank Gevaerts <frank.gevaerts@fks.be> wrote:

> Adds configurable waiting periods to the ipaq connection code. These are
> not needed when the pocketpc device is running normally when plugged in,
> but they need extra delays if they are physically connected while
> rebooting.
> There are two parameters :
> * initial_wait : this is the delay before the driver attemts to start the
>   connection. This is needed because the pocktpc device takes much
>   longer to boot if the driver starts sending control packets too soon.
> * connect_retries : this is the number of times the control urb is
>   retried before finally giving up. The patch also adds a 1 second delay
>   between retries.
> I'm not sure if the cases where this patch is useful are general enough
> to include this in the kernel.
> 
> ..
>
> +module_param(connect_retries, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(connect_retries, "Maximum number of connect retries (100ms each)");

1000ms, methinks.