From: Vojtech Pavlik input: The timeout while() loops in iforce-packets.c lack a set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); call. The right solution is to replace them with wait_event_interruptible_timeout(). Reported-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik Index: dmitry/drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-usb.c =================================================================== --- dmitry.orig/drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-usb.c 2005-06-27 15:13:50.000000000 +0200 +++ dmitry/drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-usb.c 2005-07-07 15:23:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ goto exit; } + wake_up(&iforce->wait); iforce_process_packet(iforce, (iforce->data[0] << 8) | (urb->actual_length - 1), iforce->data + 1, regs); Index: dmitry/drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-packets.c =================================================================== --- dmitry.orig/drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-packets.c 2005-06-27 15:13:50.000000000 +0200 +++ dmitry/drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-packets.c 2005-07-07 15:26:48.000000000 +0200 @@ -249,9 +249,6 @@ int iforce_get_id_packet(struct iforce *iforce, char *packet) { - DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); - int timeout = HZ; /* 1 second */ - switch (iforce->bus) { case IFORCE_USB: @@ -260,22 +257,13 @@ iforce->cr.bRequest = packet[0]; iforce->ctrl->dev = iforce->usbdev; - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - add_wait_queue(&iforce->wait, &wait); - - if (usb_submit_urb(iforce->ctrl, GFP_ATOMIC)) { - set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - remove_wait_queue(&iforce->wait, &wait); + if (usb_submit_urb(iforce->ctrl, GFP_ATOMIC)) return -1; - } - while (timeout && iforce->ctrl->status == -EINPROGRESS) - timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout); + wait_event_interruptible_timeout(iforce->wait, + iforce->ctrl->status != -EINPROGRESS, HZ); - set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - remove_wait_queue(&iforce->wait, &wait); - - if (!timeout) { + if (iforce->ctrl->status -= -EINPROGRESS) { usb_unlink_urb(iforce->ctrl); return -1; } @@ -290,16 +278,10 @@ iforce->expect_packet = FF_CMD_QUERY; iforce_send_packet(iforce, FF_CMD_QUERY, packet); - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - add_wait_queue(&iforce->wait, &wait); - - while (timeout && iforce->expect_packet) - timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout); - - set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - remove_wait_queue(&iforce->wait, &wait); + wait_event_interruptible_timeout(iforce->wait, + !iforce->expect_packet, HZ); - if (!timeout) { + if (iforce->expect_packet) { iforce->expect_packet = 0; return -1; }