netdev - Re: another race in hso

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:11:29 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Denis Joseph Barrow <D.Barow@...ion.com>
Cc:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	strasse@...ibm.com, Paul Hardwick <P.Hardwick@...ion.com>,
	ajb@...eresystems.co.uk, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: another race in hso

Am Monday 12 January 2009 09:57:41 schrieb Denis Joseph Barrow:

> Oliver if you haven't given a detailed description of the patch you need to do so before the patch can be accepted
> especially a patch of this size.

I'll do an extended description.
 
> Can the patch be broken down into seperate patches 1 for each bug? have you used quilt and linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> before?

This patch solves just one bug, so I cannot split it up along
these lines. Basically you race against suspend and that required
a change in locking which in turn required that I touch most places
where locks are taken, so the patch is large.

	Regards
		Oliver
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