linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/24] rfcomm fixes

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Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:00:32 -0500
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
CC:	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	Gianluca Anzolin <gianluca@...tospazio.it>,
	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>,
	Andrey Vihrov <andrey.vihrov@...il.com>,
	Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>,
	"bluez mailin list (linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org)" 
	<linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] rfcomm fixes

Hi Marcel,

On 02/10/2014 05:09 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>> This patch series addresses a number of previously unknown issues
>> with the RFCOMM tty device implementation, in addition to
>> addressing the locking regression recently reported [1].
>>
>> As Gianluca suggested and I agree, this series first reverts
>> 3 of the 4 patches of 3.14-rc1 for bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c.
>
> so for 3.14 we should revert 3 patches. And then the other 21 are
 > intended for 3.15 merge window.

Yep, this is probably best. At least 3.13 & 3.14 will behave the
same wrt rfcomm.

> I realize that we still have to deal with some breakage, but we
 > do not want regressions and I clearly not going to take 24 patches
 > for 3.14 at this point in time.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting you to.

> What I can do is take all 24 patches into bluetooth-next and let
 > them sit for 1 week and have people test them. And then we go ahead
 > with reverting 3 patches from 3.14. Does that make sense?

Yep, that's fine with me. Thanks.

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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