timer_list for FreeBSD?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20051123092444.D826E164293 at ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com>
            "Yong Ma" <mayong at mail.com> writes:
: In my work I send some data to the card and wait for a result in a
: loop.but sometimes it can't get it ,so the driver run and run and
: can't get out of the loop.I need something like timer_list in Linux
: with which I can decide the max time the loop will run.I searched it
: in the source code but found little about that.Anyone can help?

Typically this sort of thing is done in FreeBSD in a more ad-hoc way:

	  /*
	   * Wait at most 1ms for the busy bit to flip.  Datasheet
	   * says it will take up to 250us, so add a sane margin of
	   * error in case they are wrong.  Note: GetStatus takes 1us
	   * to perform the i/o.
	   */
	  limit = 1000;
	  while ((GetStatus() & BusyBit) && limit-- > 0)
		continue;

There's no easy API that will let you limit it to a fixed time.  The
above typically is sufficient for 'don't loop forever' so nothing
fancier has been created.

Warner