On Ut, 2007-03-13 at 11:32 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:10:52AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > This patch (as865) fixes a race in the HCD removal code discovered by > > > Milan Plzik. Arrival of an interrupt after the root hub was > > > unregistered could cause the root-hub status timer to start up, even > > > after it was supposed to have been shut down. The problem is fixed by > > > moving the del_timer_sync() call to after the HCD's stop() method, at > > > which time IRQ generation should be disabled. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Should this be in 2.6.21 or can it wait until 2.6.22? > > It can wait, as far as I am concerned. Probably the only system affected > by the race is the one Milan has. :-)
In handhelds.org tree there is a workaround for this issue, and in fact, this is probably the only tree used to build kernel for this device, so it's OK. The only thing which partially matters it when the workaround can be dropped. :) In any case, this concerning that all other platforms work correctly without this patch, it does not classify as a high priority one. > > Alan Stern > Milan Plzik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel