[PATCH] Staging: comedi: add timeouts to while loops in s626.c

[Chase Southwood]

>On Friday, February 28, 2014 11:49 PM, Chase Southwood <chase.southwood at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>On Friday, February 28, 2014 11:26 AM, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
>>>On 2014-02-28 07:35, Chase Southwood wrote:

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>>In the case of s626_send_dac(), it doesn't seem to be used in any 
>>critical sections, so it could make use of Hartley's comedi_timeout().
>>
>>Some of the timeout errors could be propagated, especially for 
>>s626_send_dac() which is only reachable from very few paths.
>
>
>Awesome, I'll swap all of my timeouts out for comedi_timeout() in s626_send_dac().

Actually, after taking another look at this, I don't think that using comedi_timeout()
here is going to work, actually.
The context from which s626_send_dac() is called allows sleep all right, but readl() isn't
a comedi function and therefore it doesn't behave (in parameters or return values) as
the callback function parameter to comedi_timeout() requires.  So unless I'm missing
something particularly large here, I believe we'll have to do the timeouts here manually
as well.  Am I correct here, and if so, would you like the iteration based timeouts here
as well, or a sleep-based timeout similar to that employed by comedi_timeout()?


Thanks,
Chase