netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] wimax/i2400m: fixup completion handling for resetting a device

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Message-ID: <55096FA1.9030908@cogentembedded.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:29:21 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
	Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>
CC:	linux-wimax@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] wimax/i2400m: fixup completion handling for resetting
 a device

Hello.

On 3/17/2015 12:49 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> wait_for_completion_timeout return 0 (timeout) or >=1 (completion) so the check
> for > 0 in the else branch is always true and can be dropped. The comment seems
> misleading as it is always going to pass the result up.

> The sync of the completion access with __i2400m_dev_reset_handle (which checks
> for   if (i2400m->reset_ctx)   could race if i2400m_reset() returns negative so
> the resetting of i2400m->reset_ctx == NULL is moved to the out: path.

> As wait_for_completion_timeout returns unsigned long not int, an appropriately
> named variable of type unsigned long is added and assignments fixed up.

    Don't try to do several things in one patch.

> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>

[...]

WBR, Sergei

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