Re: [PATCHv2] hwrng: add support for picoxcell TRNG

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 06:44:21PM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
>
> +	/* Wait for some data to become available. */
> +	while (__raw_readl(csr) & CSR_OUT_EMPTY_MASK) {
> +		if (!wait)
> +			return 0;
> +		cpu_relax();
> +	}

This has the potential to loop indefinitely.  Please add a time-out
to prevent that (see existing RNG drivers for example).

Thanks!
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