Return-Path: From: "Wong, Joshua Weng Onn" To: Alexander Aring CC: "'alex.aring@gmail.com'" , "'jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com'" , "'linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: RE: Bluetooth 6lowpan ping6 slab corruption Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:57:17 +0000 Message-ID: References: <3205921b-4971-6617-223b-9b003ac28cac@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <3205921b-4971-6617-223b-9b003ac28cac@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wpan-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Hi, > > sorry for the delay... > > On 12/22/2016 12:38 AM, Wong, Joshua Weng Onn wrote: > ... > > > > I have discussed this with my technical lead and that he mentioned that we will > not be able to pursue to bring it to Linux mainline and also not able to backport > the drivers due to resource limitation. We have pending tasks/projects that are > upcoming. > > > ok. > > > Just curious, can we know the estimated timeline that it will take for an > inexperienced person in Linux kernel development to complete this task? > > > > it would take so long until everything is fine and every reviewer has no > comments on it what it could be made better... > > But one issue at my patch series is that bluetooth L2CAP code has not > asynchronous Transmit function, which is not that what it's expected by netdev > xmit callback... > > So I queued it into a workqueue -> some people would say it's a bug, some > people would say "it's works for now". > > I think it's also very difficult to add such behaviour because l2cap_chan mutex > need to be replaced by some different fast locking mechanism - if linux- > bluetooth really want such behaviour... > > Anyway, queueing into a workqueue is "okay" for me, because the way to do it > right would be complicated. :-/ > > Also there exists still the question about which L2 address should be really be > used and when we need to set it. > > - Alex Hi Alex, Thank you for your reply. I will forward this to my technical lead so that he is informed of this. Best regards, Joshua