Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:56:18 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:45:55PM -0500, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll add it to the proper place in my queue.

greg k-h
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