Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764387AbXKPUps (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:45:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755811AbXKPUpl (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:45:41 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36821 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755310AbXKPUpl (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:45:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver From: David Woodhouse To: Greg KH Cc: Alan Stern , USB development list , Kernel development list In-Reply-To: <20071116203748.GA11770@kroah.com> References: <20071116203748.GA11770@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:45:55 -0500 Message-Id: <1195245955.2533.153.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 (2.12.1-3.fc8.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 22 On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Is this something that you all feel is worth getting in for 2.6.24? > Does it fix a regression that just showed up, or is just a bugfix for > something that people finally realized has always been there? The latter. We just happen to kick the wireless device in the head by toggling its out-of-band reset signal when we unload the driver, which causes us to trigger this "unlikely" race with almost 100% reliability. But it's always been there, AFAICT. > Can it wait for 2.6.25 to get some more testing in -mm? Yeah, I think so. -- dwmw2 - 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/