linux-kernel - Re: [REVERT][v3.x.y] EHCI: Update qTD next pointer in QH overlay region during unlink

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:53:39 -0500
From:	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pkondeti@...eaurora.org,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Herton Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REVERT][v3.x.y] EHCI: Update qTD next pointer in QH overlay
 region during unlink

On 01/17/2013 01:51 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:34:41PM -0500, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please consider reverting commit
>> 3d037774b42ed677f699b1dce7d548d55f4e4c2b in mainline as well as in
>> the current stable releases.  It was included upstream as of
>> v3.6-rc6.  This commit introduced a regression, described in the
>> following bug report:
>>
>> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088733
>>
>> Reverting commit 3d037774b42ed677f699b1dce7d548d55f4e4c2b in the
>> v3.2 kernel has been confirmed to resolve the aforementioned bug.
>   
> If it's wrong in mainline then the revert needs to be done there
> and cc'd to stable.  We only revert directly in stable branches if
> the revert is not appropriate in mainline.
>
> Ben.
>
Hi Ben,

Understood.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll resend as a patch to mainline.

Thanks,

Joe
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