Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v3] PA Semi PWRficient Ethernet driver

From: [email-masked] (Olof Johansson)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:16:42 -0600

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:44:31PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:

> You might want to write these loops like that:
[...]

> That way you:
> - Let you give other processes a chance to run, 
>   while you wait for your hardware state to change 
>   (if your hardware can tolerate these latencies).
> - can somehow handle hardware failure and at least give the user a clue
>   what is happening.

Yep, makes sense. I'll implement something like it.

Thanks,

-Olof