Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269468AbUJSPf5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:35:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269470AbUJSPf4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:35:56 -0400 Received: from ida.rowland.org ([192.131.102.52]:3076 "HELO ida.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269468AbUJSPfu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:35:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:35:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@ida.rowland.org To: Dmitry Torokhov cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nils Rennebarth , USB development list Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Fw: X is killed when trying to suspend with USB Mouse plugged in In-Reply-To: <200410182012.27593.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 21 On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I don't know about /dev/input/mouse1. But the oops isn't a bug... it's a > > weakness in the way Linux implements loadable kernel modules. > > > > Ugh, it is not module implementation weakness, it looks like refcounting > problem in USB. Could you explain that more fully? Are you talking about a particular refcounting problem in the usbhid subsystem or do you mean a more pervasive problem in the whole USB system? And why do you say it's a refcounting problem in the first place? Alan Stern - 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/