Re: Linux 2.6.0

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:31:01AM +0100, Martin Diehl wrote:
> 
> I have converted dongle drivers on disk here. So far I was holding back 
> basically due to:
> * 2.6.0 freeze
> * neither hardware nor testers to do even basic validation
> * wait for tx-lock and rawmode fixes to get applied first so we would 
>   hopefully get some more feedback and trust in the infrastructure.

	Yep. Hopefully this will change as more user migrate to 2.6.X.

> If you would like to accept it now I'd sent patches this weekend.

	I'm flying tommorow, and when I'm away, I never read my e-mail.

> > 	o IrCOMM disconnect race condition Oops ; todo
> 
> After some user provided helpful information off-list I found out it gets 
> triggered when the app doesn't close the ircomm-fd before exiting.
> Just do "cat /dev/ircomm0" and kill -9 the cat to see.
> 
> Below my current experimental patch. It works for me and I've got an user
> confirmation meanwhile. It's definedly an improvement and I do think it is 
> as safe as we can get without reworking the whole ircomm-locking...

	Yes, that is more or less what I had suggested.
	Note that I'm unhappy about (self->flags & ASYNC_INITIALIZED),
either it goes under spinlock or use test_bit().

> Martin

	Jean