linux-kernel - Re: solos-pci.c: Fix me

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:18:51 -0400
From:	chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: solos-pci.c: Fix me

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:42:01 -0400
Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:14 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR
> <chas@....nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
...
> > @@ -850,8 +850,7 @@ static void solos_bh(unsigned long card_arg)
> >                                 dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> >                                 break;
> >
> > -                       case PKT_COMMAND:
> > -                       default: /* FIXME: Not really, surely? */
> > +                       default: /* PKT_COMMAND */
> >                                 if (process_command(card, port, skb))
> >                                         break;power
> >                                 spin_lock(&card->cli_queue_lock);
> >
> > and be done with it since that will preserve existing behavior.
> 
> 
> My only question then is this function causing bugs as is?
> Cheers Nick
> 

It has been there since the first version of this driver was released.
If it were breaking things, I would have to guess it would have been
noticed by now.

Just looking at the PKT_* defines, I would wildly guess that PKT_COMMAND
PKT_POPEN and PKT_PCLOSE are all being handled via the PKT_COMMAND|default
case.  If not, popen and pclose would be leaking a skb for each usage
(which would be opening and closing the PVC -- not very often).

popen and pclose just seem like specialized PKT_COMMAND types.
process_command() woud ignore PKT_POPEN and PKT_PCLOSE since they aren't
long enough to contain a command.  So maybe the comment should just go
away.

If you had access to hardware you could probably figure this out pretty
quickly.  The programmer's manual doesn't seem to be available.
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