linux-kernel - RE: [char-misc-next 4/4] mei: bus: enable non-blocking RX

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:30:25 +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 4/4] mei: bus: enable non-blocking RX


> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:22:24PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > > Just make a new function mei_cldev_recv_async() and then call a
> > > local, static function, that does the work with the correct flag
> > > set.  That way the developer always knows exactly what is going on.
> >
> > We can do a wrapper, but _async() is not proper here maybe
> > _nonblock(),
> 
> Yes, I just guessed at the name :)

Understood, any how I believe that we should keep patch as is, there is no one
API _nonblock() function in the whole kernel unlike _async(), 
nonblock  is always passed in as a flag or Boolean. 

Tomas