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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: question on macros in wait.h
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:38:02 +0100
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Am Freitag, 21. M?rz 2003 07:52 schrieb David Brownell:
>   > is there some deeper reason that there's no macro for waiting
>   > uninterruptablely with a timeout? Or did just nobody feel a need
>   > as yet?
>
> Those macros seem to have moved out of <linux/sched.h> (2.4)
> and wait_event_interruptible_timeout() was added about 6
> months ago; the changelog entry says it was for smbfs.
> So I'd guess "no need yet".
>
> Here's an updated version of your patch, now using the same
> calling convention that the other two "can return 'early'"
> calls there provide.  It's behaved in my testing, to replace the
> chaos in the usb synchronous call wrappers.

Much better than my version.

	Regards
		Oliver

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