linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc3 - oops on remove of USB dongle

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:54:36 -0500
From:	"John Stoffel" <john@...ffel.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, oneukum@...e.de,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3 - oops on remove of USB dongle


Greg> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:40:21AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've just compiled and installed 2.6.21-rc3 on my Dual CPU Dell
>> Precision 610MT system.  Dual 550mhz Xeon, 768mb of RAM.  Mix of SCSI,
>> ATA drives.  I'm using the new ATA_ drivers for my PATA disks.  
>> 
>> After booting, I pulled my seldom used USB->serial device from the
>> system to toss in my bag to bring to work.  It's a Belkin F5U109
>> dongle.  I noticed the following oops:

Greg> Ugh, I have a fix for this in my tree, I'll send it to Linus in
Greg> a few hours.

Greg> sorry for taking so long with this...

No problem.  Oliver Neukum sent me a pair of patches to try (appended
below) and they seem to have done the trick just fine now.  I can
plug/unplug the device without any more oopses.

Hopefully this will make it into 2.6.21-rc4

Cheers,
John

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