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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 14:56:13 +0100 (BST)
From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Bug creating USB endpoints in 2.6.20.x (kernel bug 8198)
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>
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--- Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, here's a half-assed fix.  With this patch applied, if you try to
> unload a module while you're opening it's dev attribute, kernel will
> oops later when the file is accessed or closed later but it should fix
> the bug winecfg triggers.  I really dunno how to fix this the right way
> in the stable kernel.  Better ideas?  Anyone?

How about a WARN() and a small(?) memory leak? Better than an oops, surely?

Cheers,
Chris


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