linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc4

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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:48:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
cc:	Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@...tmail.fm>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc4



On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Your patch is more robust and we should go with it
> (and thanks for fixing this bug!).

Ok, I committed the patch as-is, since it's what Anders tested, but I'm 
not at all convinced that it is necessarily the best or final form. The 
things I am aware of but didn't think about all *that* deeply:

 - do we get return values etc right (ie if we complete the command that 
   didn't give any data, how do we account the size of it?)

 - what about that remaining old unexpected case? I kept the "wait for it 
   with timeout" behaviour for the case that wasn't an issue here, but if 
   it really is a shared interrupt, that seems like it's going to always 
   reset the timeout to WAIT_WORSTCASE, which doesn't sound really right.

so I think this particular bug is fixed and we should be better off, but 
I'm definitely not claiming that the code shouldn't have people thinking 
about improving it..

			Linus
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