linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] base/class.c: prevent ooops due to insert/remove race (v3)

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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:59:55 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] base/class.c: prevent ooops due to
 insert/remove race (v3)

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mark Lord wrote:

> (resending with condensed version of original syslog)

(Sending a 344-KB log file wasn't enough, you had to send another 46-KB 
condensed version as well?  :-)

> Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
> >
> >> But the flogging continues multiple times per second
> >> until the system is shutdown, so it is "the next bug to fix".
> >
> > That's not true.  The number of commands sent while probing a device is
> > predetermined and strictly limited.
> ...
> 
> Please tell that to my overflowing syslog (see bottom of this post).
> But I hope that 2.6.24 does behave better, thanks.

This is a new, separate bug.  I have never seen it before -- unlike the  
oops you got, which I have known about for many months.

Alan Stern

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