Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755363AbZITSPT (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:15:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754767AbZITSPT (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:15:19 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:58317 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754723AbZITSPS (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:15:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:11:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Stern Cc: Tilman Schmidt , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: Status of Bug 8094 - ipaq oops on connecting "Vodafone VPA-II" ? Message-ID: <20090920181133.GA14366@kroah.com> References: <20090920150549.GC11621@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1833 Lines: 42 On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:12:29PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 03:39:57PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > > When I connect my "T-Mobile MDA compact III" to my PC, running > > > kernel 2.6.31 with openSUSE 10.3 userspace, I get exactly the > > > symptoms described in: > > > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8094 > > > > > > But that bug is marked as "CLOSED CODE_FIX", though reading through > > > the comments I found no clear indication what was actually fixed, > > > and from reading through the source files drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c > > > and drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c I get the impression that the > > > problem of ipaq_open() oopsing because it gets called with > > > port->read_urb==NULL is still present. > > Interestingly, the fix from that bug report _was_ merged as commit > 063a2da8f01806906f7d7b1a1424b9afddebc443 (written by me). But then it > was removed later on(!) in commits > 07c3b1a1001614442c665570942a3107a722c314 and > 9aebfd6bda789891e6d296bb49b5fb32d1057f18 (written by Greg). > > Apparently the check should have been moved from the core into the > lower-level driver (i.e., ipaq.c) but it wasn't. I don't know why; > maybe Greg does. Yes, I missed the fact that the ipaq driver needed to pay attention to this, my mistake :( I'm pretty much not able to write any new patches until the end of next week, due to conferences I'm currently attending, so if someone wants to knock up a patch to fix this before then, it would be most appreciated. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/