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Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability
Date 2017-01-25 15:40 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:27:38PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> In my driver, udelay() is mostly used to handle time out.
> 
> Xdbc hides most USB things in its firmware. Early printk driver only needs
> to setup the registers/data structures and wait until link ready or time out.
> Without udelay(), I have no means to convert the polling times into waiting
> time.

What is timeout and why? If there is an error other than !ready, I would
expect the hardware to inform you of this through another status bit,
no?

So why can't you poll indefinitely for either ready or error?

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Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-19 10:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-20 03:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-22 10:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-24 05:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-24 09:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-25 06:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-25 10:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-01-25 11:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-25 13:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-01-25 15:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-25 17:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-01-25 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-26 04:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 08:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-26 08:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 09:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-01-26 11:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 17:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-01-26 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-27 08:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 08:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-25 13:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2017-01-26 04:30 +0100

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