Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc4 hid bluetooth not working

From: Marc Pignat
Date: Sat May 02 2009 - 04:46:10 EST


>>> Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/02/09 12:57 AM >>>
>Hi Jiri,
>
>> > Subject: bluetooth: Fix serialization when adding/deleting connections in hci_sysfs
>> >
>> > add_conn and del_conn should be serialized, but flush_workqueue can't be used
>> > by the worker thread on it's own queue, so use flush_work to serialize add_conn
>> > and del_conn against each other.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> FWIW.
>
>nak from my side since I think it is the wrong fix. We really wanna wait
>for all works to finish here. This includes work from other connection
>attempts or terminations.

IMHO, there is no need to wait for work currently running, since this is a
singlethread workqueue.

But it is perhaps simpler to use a lock (mutex or watherver locking primitive).

Regards

Marc

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