Re: [PATCH] Poll-based IDE driver

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:50:51PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Why not just use udelay() ?  The above code cannot possibly do
> the right thing on all processors.

Since my code is supposed to run when system is crashing, I would like 
to avoid calling any function in the kernel as far as possible, since 
the kernel and its data structures may be in a inconsistent state 
and/or corrupted.

I do realize that the above code does not provide accurate 
delay and may not work on all platforms. In that direction
I was considering using the loops_per_jiffy variable 
which may provide more accurate/platform-independent delay (?) ..


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Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560033
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