Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] ps3: Storage Driver Probing

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 08:47:09 +1000

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 18:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > +static u64 ps3stor_wait_for_completion(u64 devid, u64 tag,
> > +                                    unsigned int timeout)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned int retries = 0;
> > +     u64 res = -1, status;
> > +
> > +     for (retries = 0; retries < timeout; retries++) {
> > +             res =
> lv1_storage_check_async_status(NOTIFICATION_DEVID, tag,
> > +                                                  &status);
> > +             if (!res)
> > +                     break;
> > +             set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > +             schedule_timeout(1);
> > +     }
> 
> Any reason not to use msleep(1) instead of the schedule_timeout? 

Both look equally ugly though... do you really have to poll ?

Ben.