Re: [PATCH v3] Bluetooth: automatically flushable packets aren't allowed on LE links

[Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>]

Hi Marcel,

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> >>>> I think Marcel was after just providing a clarifying code comment in
> >>>> both places - having two branches of an if-statement doing exactly the
> >>>> same thing looks a bit weird to me. To make thins completely clear I'd
> >>>> suggest adding a simple helper function that you can call from both
> >>>> places to get the needed flags, something like the following:
> >>> 
> >>> I am actually fine with just adding a comment explaining the complex if
> >>> statement on why it is correct. It is just a helper for everybody to
> >>> understand what and why it is done that way.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Is the comment I added sufficient, or should I add one for the other if
> >> condition as well?  To me, the second condition is pretty straightforward:
> >> if the caller requested it and the hardware supports it, use NO_FLUSH.  The
> >> relationship between FLUSH/NO_FLUSH and low-energy is much less clear and
> >> more justifies a comment, in my opinion.
> > 
> > Did a miss a reply to this?  How would you like the next iteration of
> > the patch to look?
> 
> can you just send a v4 and I have a look at it. I thing it is best to
> keep the original patch with the rather complicated if statement you
> had. And then add a comment in front of it, why it is that way and
> that it is correct this way.

Since this is moving way too slow for such a trivial patch I went ahead
and added the necessary comments myself and pushed the patch upstream
(to bluetooth-next). So no need to send new revisions of this one.

Johan