RE: [PARPORT] Re: patch-2.1.131-ac8-1284


Tim Waugh (twaugh@matra.co.uk)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:58:09 -0000


> >Did you read my comment in parport_wait_peripheral? It starts "This
should
> >be adjustable."
>
> Adjustable !!== autoprobing/autotuning. I would like an heuristic like the
> one I used for accounting the ato to know when to timeout and so send the
> dealayed ack in the TCP code. The same timeout here, would mean to sleep
> on the irq (if irqs are been probed by the ieee code of course
> otherwise to continue the poll ;).

Andrea, did you read the comment? The idea was to remember how long it
'normally' takes, and only poll that long.

Tim.
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