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SubjectRe: NCPFS and brittle connections
Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Sorry this took so long but I got occupied with other things and this
> had to move down the pile a bit.
>
> New patch which uses dedicated buffers for the currently active packet.
> Also adds a new state RQ_ABANDONED which basically means "the caller no
> longer cares about this request so the pointers are no longer valid". It
> is used to determine if the global receive buffer should be copied to
> the provided one upon completion.

Hello,
it would be nice if these two copies (request->txbuf, and
rxbuf->reply) could be eliminated, but I see no easy way how to do that...

> commit 166fb223f9507431fb97820549e3e41980987445
> Author: Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se>
> Date: Mon Feb 19 11:34:43 2007 +0100
>
> ncpfs: make sure server connection survives a kill
>
> Use internal buffers instead of the ones supplied by the caller
> so that a caller can be interrupted without having to abort the
> entire ncp connection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se>

Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
(modulo one thing below)

> diff --git a/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h b/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h
> index a503052..d5e7ffc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ struct ncp_server {
> int packet_size;
> unsigned char *packet; /* Here we prepare requests and
> receive replies */
> + unsigned char *txbuf; /* Storage for current requres */

Looks like a typo? requres => request ?

> + unsigned char *rxbuf; /* Storage for reply to current request */
>
> int lock; /* To prevent mismatch in protocols. */
> struct mutex mutex;

Petr
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