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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>,
	Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wimax@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] wimax/i2400m: fixup completion handling for resetting a device
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:29:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55096FA1.9030908@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426585774-24204-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>

Hello.

On 3/17/2015 12:49 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> wait_for_completion_timeout return 0 (timeout) or >=1 (completion) so the check
> for > 0 in the else branch is always true and can be dropped. The comment seems
> misleading as it is always going to pass the result up.

> The sync of the completion access with __i2400m_dev_reset_handle (which checks
> for   if (i2400m->reset_ctx)   could race if i2400m_reset() returns negative so
> the resetting of i2400m->reset_ctx == NULL is moved to the out: path.

> As wait_for_completion_timeout returns unsigned long not int, an appropriately
> named variable of type unsigned long is added and assignments fixed up.

    Don't try to do several things in one patch.

> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>

[...]

WBR, Sergei


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-17  9:49 [PATCH RFC] wimax/i2400m: fixup completion handling for resetting a device Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-03-18 12:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2015-03-20  7:47   ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-03-27 17:19     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31  0:44       ` Nicholas Mc Guire

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