> > > while(time_before(time, jiffies))
> > > schedule();
> > Don't we now have schedule_timeout() to do this?
>
> You've always been able to do that- this is a bad example of what I meant
> sorry.
>
> Instead think of
> while(time_before(time, jiffies))
> {
> if(inb(driver->port+STATUS)&0x01)
> break;
> schedule();
> }
>
> which is the case I meant - where you need to wait for a driver to do
> something slow, polled and can't just delay.
Ah sorry, yes. Didn't mingo have some nice macros to do things like this?
Matthew.
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