linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] OHCI crash when handover fails

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Message-ID: <20110603174342.GC5424@linutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:43:42 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] OHCI crash when handover fails

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt | 2011-06-02 17:58:26 [+1000]:

>The patch does indeed fix the problem for me. I noticed that it's still
>not upstream tho :-) 

There is another version of the patch pending. I hope Greg picks it but
he is in .jp as far as I can see on lwn so it may take a while.

>Can you send it to Linus asap ?

The problem should go away for you if you disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS :)
Nobody in userland should actually use this. udev and friends migrated
to the /sys interface.

>Cheers,
>Ben.

Sebastian
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