-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
To: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi <[email protected]>, 
[email protected], Arjan Mels <[email protected]>, 
[email protected], Max Vozeler <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
[email protected], [email protected], 
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to 
kthread conversion
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:02:55 -0700

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:15:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> > From: Arjan Mels <[email protected]>
> > 
> > commit d2dd0b07c3e725d386d20294ec906f7ddef207fa upstream.
> > 
> > When doing a usb port reset do a queued reset instead to prevent a
> > deadlock: the reset will cause the driver to unbind, causing the
> > usb_driver_lock_for_reset to stall.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan Mels <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Max Vozeler <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> > 
> 
> I think either the subject line is misleading or the patch is not
> needed in -stable. The kthread conversion was done in 2.6.38, so
> any bug introduced by it would not need to be fixed in an earlier
> version, afaict.

Yes, the Subject: was incorrect, and I only realized it after it was
committed to the tree, sorry.

The bug fixes were still real.

thanks,

greg k-h

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