linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: logitech-hidpp: rework one more time the retries attempts

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Message-ID: <cfa28818-9eaf-0dc9-cb4a-1b3de318e627@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:09:58 +0200
From:   "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)" 
        <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Filipe Laíns <lains@...eup.net>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: logitech-hidpp: rework one more time the retries
 attempts

On 26.06.23 16:02, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 10:30 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2023-06-23 at 10:37 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>>> On Jun 21 2023, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>>>>> Make the code looks less like Pascal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Extract the internal code inside a helper function, fix the
>>>>> initialization of the parameters used in the helper function
>>>>> (`hidpp->answer_available` was not reset and `*response` wasn't
>>>>> too),
>>>>> and use a `do {...} while();` loop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 586e8fede795 ("HID: logitech-hidpp: Retry commands when
>>>>> device is busy")
>>>>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> as requested by
>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiMbF38KCNhPFiargenpSBoecSXTLQACKS2UMyo_Vu2ww@mail.gmail.com/
>>>>> This is a rewrite of that particular piece of code.
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>> --------------
>>>>>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> [...]
> 
> Some people on the Bz were able to reproduce with multiple reboots.
> But it's not as urgent as previously, and we were close to the 6.4
> final when I sent it. I'll make sure this goes into 6.5 and gets
> proper stable backports FWIW.

Did that happen? Doesn't look like it from here, but maybe I'm missing
something. Where there maybe other changes to resolve the remaining
problems some users encounter sporadically since the urgent fixes went in?

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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