/*
* Last sector was transfered, wait until drive is ready.
* This can take up to 10 usec, but we will wait max 1 ms
* (drive_cmd_intr() waits that long).
*/
while (((stat = hwif->INB(IDE_STATUS_REG)) & BUSY_STAT) && retries--)
udelay(10);
if (!retries)
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: drive still BUSY!\n", drive->name);
return stat;
}
`printk' is never called because `retries' never holds zero at the
outside of `while' loop: when `retries' holds zero at the while's loop
condition, `retries' will hold -1 at the if condition.