Re: [PATCH] net: usb: active URB submitted multiple times

[David Miller]

From: Petko Manolov <petkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:21:49 +0300 (EEST)

> From: Petko Manolov <petkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> (For inclusion in 3.10, diff against latest net-next.)
> 
> Pegasus driver used single callback for sync and async control URBs. 
> Special flags were employed to distinguish between both, but due to flawed 
> logic (as Sarah Sharp spotted) it didn't always work.  As a result of this 
> change [get|set]_registers() are now much simpler.  Async write is also 
> leaner and does not use single, statically allocated memory for 
> usb_ctrlrequest, which is another potential race when asynchronously 
> submitting URBs.
> 
> The socket buffer pool for the receive path is now gone.  It's existence 
> didn't make much difference (performance-wise) and the code is better off 
> without the spinlocks protecting it.
> 
> Largely duplicated code in routines reading and writing MII registers is 
> now packed in __mii_op().
> 
> Adding URL for the public pegasus git repository.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petko Manolov <petkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Three completely unrelated changes combined into one patch, split this
up properly into three distinct changes, and resubmit them as a series
with a "[PATCH 0/N]" initial posting.
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