Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754076AbXKSUAM (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:00:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751230AbXKST76 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:59:58 -0500 Received: from smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.97]:23365 "HELO smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750973AbXKST76 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:59:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=Sq1VjkHaczApqlWAtr0RQqc8ohIkSS8KmmAeSCzchees1gSvmkDQBZI6HzIZwWHWDed7MA0WdUPfm+r4DzhIgY/o99zgqDcHtsbo+TfhH3A0Z4TxXyaR8iYnpyP5KspoMOsNOFFMsPi1OX5/qnpPHQ3Oj0ma8K4mpn80uedOZCA= ; X-YMail-OSG: Z2qA84wVM1lh_LVYsWP8yCi0jQ0Zan_JLFWItTn2RVxuYbdeKJGkeuA8ksInV4WbgMd59c7_Lg-- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:59:55 -0800 From: David Brownell To: stern@rowland.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [patch 19/26] USB: mutual exclusion for EHCI init and port resets Cc: zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org, reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, mkrufky@linuxtv.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmforbes@linuxtx.org, gregkh@suse.de, dely.l.sy@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, davej@redhat.com, chuckw@quantumlinux.com, cebbert@redhat.com, cavokz@gmail.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20071119195955.B0C482214F3@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 17 > This addition certainly won't hurt. Did we ever get any feedback as to > whether it actually helped? ISTR that davem refused to try it, after reporting an intermittent failure on the original patch (which only addresses one end of that hardware race). So, no ... but given we know that closing only one side of the race isn't quite enough, I think we need it anyway. - Dave - 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/