linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] staging: greybus: loopback: convert loopback to use generic async operations

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Message-ID: <20171106091912.GD11226@localhost>
Date:   Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:19:12 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@...us-software.ie>
Cc:     johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mitch Tasman <tasman@...flabs.com>,
        greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] staging: greybus: loopback: convert loopback to
 use generic async operations

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 01:32:22AM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Loopback has its own internal method for tracking and timing out
> asynchronous operations however previous patches make it possible to use
> functionality provided by operation.c to do this instead. Using the code in
> operation.c means we can completely subtract the timer, the work-queue, the
> kref and the cringe-worthy 'pending' flag. The completion callback
> triggered by operation.c will provide an authoritative result code -
> including -ETIMEDOUT for asynchronous operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@...us-software.ie>

Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>