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Message-Id: <20071119.143241.165308264.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:32:41 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: david-b@...bell.net
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Subject: Re: [patch 19/26] USB: mutual exclusion for EHCI init and port
resets
From: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:59:55 -0800
> > This addition certainly won't hurt. Did we ever get any feedback as to
> > whether it actually helped?
>
> ISTR that davem refused to try it, after reporting an
> intermittent failure on the original patch (which only
> addresses one end of that hardware race).
>
> So, no ... but given we know that closing only one side
> of the race isn't quite enough, I think we need it anyway.
I think we should put all these changes in because at a minimum
it's a step in the right direction even if it doesn't close
the hole %100.
So please let's merge the mutex and the msleep() change in
ASAP, thanks.
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