Re: [PATCH 1/2] bluetooth: don't include local processing of HCI commands in the command timeout

[Alexander Holler]

Am 31.05.2014 08:45, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> Am 31.05.2014 07:28, schrieb Marcel Holtmann:

> > so I actually wonder if we should move away from timer and move to a delayed work item to handle the timeout and if that would actually fix this issue.
>
> The problem is that I have absolutely no clue where these timeouts do
> come from. They appear for different commands and almost always only at
> boot. If the machine did come up without hci command timeouts, there
> never was one afterwards. So I digged in the dark and the above patch
> was one of the results. But I still had to increase the command timeout.
> And I can't do much testing as I use this box. I just experience this
> problem almost always when I boot it (to do kernel updates) and since a
> very long time (more than a year I think).

And I should mention that I had these timeouts with a different dongle 
too (I switched from a bt 3.x dongle to a bt 4.x dongle around a year 
ago). But as said, in the commit msg, the old behaviour might have 
masked different problems like deadlocks or similiar too, so I just 
might have experienced several different problems.

Regards,

Alexander Holler

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