Jean II was right: you have to re-charge the final timer when resending rejected frames. Otherwise it triggers at a wrong time and can break the currently running communication. Reproducible under rt-preempt. Signed-off-by: G. Liakhovetski Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz Index: net-2.6-quilt/net/irda/irlap_event.c =================================================================== --- net-2.6-quilt.orig/net/irda/irlap_event.c 2007-05-29 09:36:09.000000000 +0300 +++ net-2.6-quilt/net/irda/irlap_event.c 2007-05-29 09:38:19.000000000 +0300 @@ -1418,14 +1418,14 @@ */ self->remote_busy = FALSE; + /* Stop final timer */ + del_timer(&self->final_timer); + /* * Nr as expected? */ ret = irlap_validate_nr_received(self, info->nr); if (ret == NR_EXPECTED) { - /* Stop final timer */ - del_timer(&self->final_timer); - /* Update Nr received */ irlap_update_nr_received(self, info->nr); @@ -1457,14 +1457,12 @@ /* Resend rejected frames */ irlap_resend_rejected_frames(self, CMD_FRAME); - - /* Final timer ??? Jean II */ + irlap_start_final_timer(self, self->final_timeout * 2); irlap_next_state(self, LAP_NRM_P); } else if (ret == NR_INVALID) { IRDA_DEBUG(1, "%s(), Received RR with " "invalid nr !\n", __FUNCTION__); - del_timer(&self->final_timer); irlap_next_state(self, LAP_RESET_WAIT); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html