linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0 STILL dies on USB device hotplug

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:23:40 +0100
From:	Jonathan McDowell <noodles@...th.li>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0 STILL dies on USB device hotplug - please merge fix
 ASAP

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:02:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 3.0 still oopses and dies immediately on USB device hot unplug.
> The same problem also triggered with SAS device according to Dan.
> 
> There was a lot of debugging on this a few weeks back and Alan Stern
> posted a SCSI layer patch that fixed the problem (for both USB
> and SAS):
> 
> http://68.183.106.108/lists/linux-usb/msg49001.html

It also affects disappearing Fibre Channel devices and Alan's patch
fixes that too.

J.

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