[PATCH] [RESEND] mtd: docg4: fix status polling loop

[Brian Norris]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:31:18AM -0700, Mike Dunn wrote:
> On 10/11/2013 11:16 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:25:27AM -0700, Mike Dunn wrote:
> >> The loop that polls the status register waiting for an operation to complete
> >> foolishly bases the timeout simply on the number of loop iterations that have
> >> ocurred.  When I increased the processor clock speed, timeouts started to appear
> >> for long block erasure operations.  This patch measures the timeout using
> >> jiffies.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn at newsguy.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> This is a rework of an earlier patch, based on Artem's recommendation to use
> >> jiffies, not udelay() (thanks Artem).  I didn't mark it 'v2' because the rework
> >> makes the original name of the patch inaccurate, so now it has a different name.
> >>
> >> This was originally sent a couple months ago... was probably a bad time.
> > 
> > Wow, this identical patch was sent as far back as May 31 and is being
> > submitted for the 3rd time now :( I hope there will be fewer "bad times"
> > like this in the future.
> 
> 
> Thanks much Brian.  No big deal.  There's only one other user of this driver
> that I'm aware of :(
> 
> Thanks also for volunteering to shoulder some of the mtd maintenance duties.
> Good job!

Thanks! It's an interesting job.

Brian