Re: [RC6 Bell Chime] [PATCH 00/24] rfcomm fixes

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Saturday, March 15, 2014, 9:45:03 PM, you wrote:

> On 03/15/2014 01:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Guys, why is this being discussed?

> FWIW, the 'known breakage' for 3.14 is a (valid) lockdep report.

Hmm .. whoops you are right .. i remembered it as being an "oops",
but you are right it was merely an lockdep warning.
Should have checked that before putting up my big mouth .. sorry for that!

> This regression was introduced by a small patchset added to -next
> over the holidays that was intended to address 2 bug reports
> stemming from a long-overdue overhaul of the RFCOMM tty driver by
> Gianluca Anzolin (which fixed numerous problems and several hangs
> reported since 3.8).

Ok if what went in for 3.14 fixes some hangs that should probably outweigh
the lockdep warning regression.

> It is the bulk of that small patchset which is being reverted.

> The point of this brief history is that:
> 1) the 3.13 state of rfcomm is just as broken as 3.14-rcX, but
>     in a different way
> 2) there are plenty of serious defects in both versions regardless.

> I mean for this to be informative and not argumentative --
> either outcome is ok with me. In fact, I'm ok if you want to
> pick my entire 24-patch series that addresses the bugs in 3.13
> and 3.14, plus a bunch of other problems that I found at the time.

> Regards,
> Peter Hurley



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