Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764045AbXK2WAQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:00:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762999AbXK2V76 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:59:58 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:35151 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1762686AbXK2V75 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:59:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:59:55 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Mark Lord cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] base/class.c: prevent ooops due to insert/remove race (v3) In-Reply-To: <474F1EF9.5060306@rtr.ca> 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: 1034 Lines: 30 On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > (resending with condensed version of original syslog) (Sending a 344-KB log file wasn't enough, you had to send another 46-KB condensed version as well? :-) > Alan Stern wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > > >> But the flogging continues multiple times per second > >> until the system is shutdown, so it is "the next bug to fix". > > > > That's not true. The number of commands sent while probing a device is > > predetermined and strictly limited. > ... > > Please tell that to my overflowing syslog (see bottom of this post). > But I hope that 2.6.24 does behave better, thanks. This is a new, separate bug. I have never seen it before -- unlike the oops you got, which I have known about for many months. 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/