Re: [PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver (0.14.10)

[Alan Cox]

> Why?  Hardware semaphores are notorious for causing hangs.  Nobody is 
> sharing the hardware under Linux, so I think we should enable access on 
> init, and not disable access until driver close.  IMO the mixer should 
> be guarded by a Linux kernel semaphore...  I have a patch from Thomas 
> Sailer (I think) lying around somewhere that does just that to the via 
> audio driver.  Maybe we can adapt it.
> (I cc'd this little detail, in my ali/trident.c patch review, to you)

So add a timeout to it ?