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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 06:54:23 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc:     stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 36/98] usb: serial: handle -ENODEV quietly
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:39:29AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 04f9c6e6d17584340fb6c8a9469a0e6df28876d2 ]
>>
>> If a USB serial device (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0) with an active program is
>> unplugged, an -ENODEV (19) error will be produced after it gives up
>> trying to resubmit a read.
>>
>>   usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb - usb_submit_urb failed: -19
>>
>> Add -ENODEV as one of the permanent errors along with -EPERM that
>> usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb() handles quietly without an error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>
>This isn't a bug fix, but more of a clean up patch and hence does not
>qualify for stable. So specifically the stable tag was left out on
>purpose.
>
>I never got a chance to talk to you in Edinburgh, but Greg mentioned you
>had an opt-out list for your autosel work which I'd like to be added to.
>
>I always mark bug fixes that qualify for stable as such so anything else
>that your process picks up would already have been considered and
>rejected by me.

I'll drop it, thanks Johan!

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Thanks,
Sasha