Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:41:46 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpilo open/close fix
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:18:37PM -0700, David Altobelli wrote:
> Fix to hpilo module, patch against 2.6.28.
> The device can take a while to respond to an open/close request, so increase
> the time kernel will wait for response (1 ms to 10ms).  
> Also, properly clean up a channel on a failed open, by calling the 
> channel close routine.  Just freeing the memory isn't sufficient, the device
> needs to be informed that the channel is no longer open, and the device
> memory cleared of references to freed dma buffer.
> 
> Please CC me on any replies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>

Am I supposed to be shepharding patches to drivers/misc/hpilo into the
kernel tree?  If so, I've been ignoring it, sorry.  Is there any becides
this one that you need to go in?

thanks,

greg k-h
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