Subject: Re: smartmedia adaptors
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/26/2000 01:08:53
jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
> How about code segments like
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
> 		if (something) break;
> 		delay(50);
> 	}
> 
> A small delay.. which can become a very large one.  (I have seen this
> kind of loops somewhere..)

As you probably guessed, wdc.c:__wdcwait_reset() is one of those places... 

	for (timeout = 0; timeout < WDCNDELAY_RST;timeout++) {
        ...
		delay(WDCDELAY);
	}

-wolfgang
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