Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:56:18 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver |
| |
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:45:55PM -0500, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Is this something that you all feel is worth getting in for 2.6.24? > > Does it fix a regression that just showed up, or is just a bugfix for > > something that people finally realized has always been there? > > The latter. We just happen to kick the wireless device in the head by > toggling its out-of-band reset signal when we unload the driver, which > causes us to trigger this "unlikely" race with almost 100% reliability. > But it's always been there, AFAICT. > > > Can it wait for 2.6.25 to get some more testing in -mm? > > Yeah, I think so.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll add it to the proper place in my queue.
greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |