Re: [PATCH 10/11] staging/fwserial: Fix premature unthrottle

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 30 2013 - 08:30:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:11:05AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 23:29 -0500, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:34:44PM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > > The unthrottle may restart the writer before the rx push
> > > has a chance to start emptying the rx buffer, resulting in an
> > > overflowed rx buffer and lost data.
> > >
> > > Perform the actual device unthrottle with the rx push instead.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c | 30 ++++++++++++++----------------
> > > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > this patch fails to apply to my tree, but the 9 previous ones were fine,
> > so I'll not apply it, or ght 11/11 patch. Care to fix it up and resend
> > both of them?
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I can rebase these against your staging-next, if you'd prefer, but it
> will make the -next merge non-trivial.
>
> Your tty-next tree is carrying patches to this driver from patch series
> "TTY: switch flipping functions to tty_port"
> which is already in -next.
>
> Let me know what you'd like me to do.

Ugh, that's a mess.

Can these wait until after 3.9-rc1 is out? If so, things should get
synced up by then. Otherwise I'll have to figure out how to handle the
merge properly...

thanks,

greg k-h
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