Re: [PATCH] OLPC: Don't retry EC commands forever

From: Daniel Drake
Date: Tue Oct 05 2010 - 10:36:48 EST


On 5 October 2010 08:53, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Paul Fox <pgf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Avoids a potential infinite loop
>
> Was this infinite loop observed in practice? I.e. should this get into
> .36 and into -stable?

It was observed once, but only during an EC hacking/debugging session
- not in regular operation.
So it should be fine for the next merge window with no need to backport it.

Thanks,
Daniel
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