From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757878Ab0JEHyA (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:54:00 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37010 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757861Ab0JEHx6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:53:45 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Daniel Drake Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, dilinger@queued.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] OLPC: Don't retry EC commands forever Message-ID: <20101005075345.GF23608@elte.hu> References: <20101001171719.4448E9D401B@zog.reactivated.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101001171719.4448E9D401B@zog.reactivated.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Daniel Drake wrote: > From: Paul Fox > > Avoids a potential infinite loop Was this infinite loop observed in practice? I.e. should this get into .36 and into -stable? Ingo