On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Dan Williams<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:32 -0300, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We're currently using Network Manager at Mamona, a developer distro >> based on open embedded for Nokia tablet devices. >> >> Currently we're using NM 0.7 and we just created the packages for NM >> 0.7.1, but while testing it, I faced some race condition issues with >> the usbnet. > > Ha! I've been looking for that race off and on for a while. Thanks for > finding the root cause. Can you try out this commit from master? If it > works for you I'll also cherry-pick to 0.7.x. > > commit 302c9fcbccf3ad945afbc3f58e42013045c6e352 > Author: Dan Williams <[email protected]> > Date: Mon Jul 13 19:40:39 2009 -0400 > > netlink: fix race that caused stale carrier state signals > > Found by Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <[email protected]> > > The link cache was updated immediately, but the carrier state signals > were emitted a lot later, when the cache data was already stale. So > just update the cache at the same time we emit the signals. The > carrier-state-request stuff wasn't originally converted to deferred > for any netlink-specific reason, just to smooth the initial device > creation process in NM.
Cool, just tested the patch at NM 0.7.1 and it's now working as expected. I was using a much similar patch (just cosmetic differences), so I can confirm that this actually fix the issue. Thanks a lot! Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
