linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc2 i/o error on /dev/ttyUSB0

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Message-ID: <20081028170605.611c7759@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:06:05 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc2 i/o error on /dev/ttyUSB0

> squarely in the "oops, kref's are screwed up" corner, and you should talk 
> to Alan about your particular USB dongle. I bet that bisection would just 
> show you one of the kref commits (eg 4a90f09b "tty: usb-serial krefs" or 
> maybe 7d7b93c14 "tty: kref the tty driver object"). 

Doesn't sound like krefs but does sound like the tty layer changes
somewhere.

Helge - can you get me an strace of this
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