Andre, Alan, Linus This patch cleans up some timeouts in the IDE subsystem. The changes are all minor and obvious, and have been in use here for some time. * change jiffies checks to use time_after() * add and use IDE_TIMEOUT_* macros Please apply this for the next 2.4.x kernel, or let me know of any issues. Thanks! Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances thockin@sun.com