On 11/4/07, Gerrit Renker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This removes the synchronisation variable `ccid2hctx_sendwait', which is set > to 1 > when the CCID2 sender may send a new packet, and which is set to 0 otherwise > > The variable is redundant, since it is only used in combination with the > hc_tx_send_packet/ > hc_tx_packet_sent function pair. Both functions are called under socket lock, > so the > following happens when the CCID2 may send a new packet: > > * it sets sendwait = 1 in tx_send_packet and returns 0; > * the subsequent call to tx_packet_sent clears the sendwait flag; > * since tx_send_packet returns 0 if and only if sendwait == 1, the BUG_ON > condition > in tx_packet_sent is never satisfied, since that function is never called > when > tx_send_packet returns a value different from 0 (cf. dccp_write_xmit); > * the call to tx_packet_sent clears the flag so that the condition > "!sendwait" is > true the next time tx_packet_sent is called. > > In other words, it is sufficient to just return 0 / not-0 to synchronise > tx_send_packet > and tx_packet_sent -- which is what the patch does. > > Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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