Re: [irda-users] [PATCH] Re: [2.6.20] Race between pppd and irnet

[Samuel O. <sa...@so...>]

On 3/16/2007, "Guennadi Liakhovetski" <gl...@ds...> wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
>
>> I will, thanks. I will also resend it to stable@ at the same time.
>
>Emn, as you can see in the original cc-list (removed now), I've done it
>already. So, I guess, it should be enough?
I saw that stable@ was included in the cc list. But I think they want
patches to be signed-off by the maintainers, that's why.

>> I still think there is a potential race between irttp_close_tsap() and
>> say e.g. irttp_run_tx_queue(). Still need to investigate...
>
>I have a wonderful test-setup (own invention (C)!:-)) - 2 irda partners,
>between them a slowly rotating half-disk with about 10-20 second period.
:-) impressive. Are you doing that for fun or profit (or academic
research) ?

>It should catch various such races. If there's any debugging I can put in
>the code / switch on, or anything to increase race's probability, let me
>know.
I will, thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Samuel.