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From: "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: mdelay causes BUG, please use udelay
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:59:44 -0700
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> > Jeff, 10000 seems on the border of what's OK.  If it's acceptable, 
> > then let's go for that.  Otherwise, we're going to have to chain 
> > several mod_timer callbacks together to do a controller reset.
> 
> For some telco and embedded apps 10000 in an IRQ is 
> borderline. One day the timer stuff will be needed - how hard 
> is it to fix right first time ?

Ok, ok, 10000 is bad, even when reseting the part, no problem.  It's not to
hard to fix the right way; I'll work on a patch to give to Jeff.

-scott
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