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Message-ID: <20071116205618.GA12133@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:56:18 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
USB development list <linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:45:55PM -0500, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > Is this something that you all feel is worth getting in for 2.6.24?
> > Does it fix a regression that just showed up, or is just a bugfix for
> > something that people finally realized has always been there?
>
> The latter. We just happen to kick the wireless device in the head by
> toggling its out-of-band reset signal when we unload the driver, which
> causes us to trigger this "unlikely" race with almost 100% reliability.
> But it's always been there, AFAICT.
>
> > Can it wait for 2.6.25 to get some more testing in -mm?
>
> Yeah, I think so.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll add it to the proper place in my queue.
greg k-h
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