linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "usb: core: remove local_irq

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 15:05:35 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Soeren Moch <smoch@....de>
Cc:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "usb: core: remove local_irq_save() around
 ->complete() handler"

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:53:40PM +0200, Soeren Moch wrote:
> This reverts commit ed194d1367698a0872a2b75bbe06b3932ce9df3a.
> 
> In contrast to the original patch description, apparently not all handlers
> were audited properly. E.g. my RT5370 based USB WIFI adapter (driver in
> drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00) hangs after a while under heavy load.
> This revert fixes this.

Why not just fix that driver?  Wouldn't that be easier?

thanks,

greg k-h