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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>,
	Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
	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: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:47:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150320074705.GB21852@opentech.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55096FA1.9030908@cogentembedded.com>

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> 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.
>
normaly yes - this was marked as RFC and if I had split it up into
3 patches it would be hard to see how it fits together without
actually applying them.

The intent was to get feedback notably on moving i2400m->reset_ctx == NULL
and if dropping the (I think missleading) comment about negative return is ok

Should this be in seperate patches even as RFC ?
Once that is clarified it will go out as 3 patchs.

thx!
hofrat

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-20  7:47 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
2015-03-20  7:47   ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]
2015-03-27 17:19     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31  0:44       ` Nicholas Mc Guire

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