linux-kernel - RE: [char-misc-next 1/2] mei: don't use wake_up_interruptible for wr

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 08:50:19 +0000
From:	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	"Usyskin, Alexander" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [char-misc-next 1/2] mei: don't use wake_up_interruptible for
 wr_ctrl

> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:07:53PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
> > >
> > > wr_ctrl waiters are none interruptible, so should be waken up with
> > > call to wake_up and not to wake_up_interruptible.
> > >
> > > This fixes commit:
> > > 7ff4bdd ("mei: fix waiting for wr_ctrl for corner cases.")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> > I see this fix didn't make it to rc1, so currently the  driver is somehow
> broken.
> > Can you please make an effort and include the fix in next rc?
> 
> Ugh, didn't realize it was totally broken, the patch didn't really say that, sorry.
> I'll queue it up once 4.7-rc1 is out.
> 

There's a big difference between somhow broken and totally broken.
Just couldn't resist to parphrase Miracle Max :There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead :)

Thanks
Tomas