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parport_set_timeout

Name

parport_set_timeout -- set the inactivity timeout for a device

Synopsis

long parport_set_timeout (struct pardevice * dev, long inactivity);

Arguments

dev: device on a port
inactivity: inactivity timeout (in jiffies)

Description

This sets the inactivity timeout for a particular device on a port. This affects functions like parport_wait_peripheral. The special value 0 means not to call schedule while dealing with this device.

The return value is the previous inactivity timeout.

Any callers of parport_wait_event for this device are woken up.

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