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Subject: Re: Please apply: Streaming read for libftdi-1

From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:50:17 +0200
On Monday, 31. May 2010 17:26:56 Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>     Thomas> Could you be so nice and comment on the possible time jump
> issue Thomas> I mentioned last time?
> 
> I think some possible time jump is irrelevant.
> 
> The time is only needed to print out the transfer rates each second. If
> there is some fluctuation it results in a slight changes rate, but that
> doesn't have implications on the data transmitted. The rate printed out
> next second will be okay.
> 
> And if there are any reasons the machine jumps time often, there will
> probably be also problems with interrupt latency and the streaming read
> will have many dropouts, making the transfer rate irrelevant too.

Ok, thanks for checking. As this is only needed for fancy output,
I don't care at all. 

Jie, do you apply the patch? I would keep the code style like it is.

Cheers,
Thomas

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