Pantelis Antoniou <pa...@antoniou-consulting.com> writes:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>
>> [fixing address for Benoit]
>> 
>> Pantelis Antoniou <pa...@antoniou-consulting.com> writes:
>> 
>>> omap_device relies on the platform notifier callbacks managing resources
>>> behind the scenes. The resources were not properly linked causing crashes
>>> when removing the device.
>>> 
>>> Rework the resource modification code so that linking is performed properly,
>>> and make sure that no resources that have no parent (which can happen for 
>>> DMA
>>> & IRQ resources) are ever left for cleanup by the core resource layer.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pa...@antoniou-consulting.com>
>> 
>> This one failed my "took more than 15 minutes to understand" test.  The
>> changelog is rather vague (especially about what "properly" means), and
>> the combination of moving code and changing it makes the patch rather
>> clunky to read, so I remain a bit confused about what the actual problem
>> is.  Please elaborate.
>> 
>> Also, could you share a crash dump as well as details about how to
>> reproduce this problem?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Kevin
>
> It's the full patchset that fixes the problem:
>
> Let me illustrate:
>
> The kernel I use is located at:
>
> g...@github.com:pantoniou/linux-beagle-track-mainline.git
> branch: merge-20130806 (there are topic branches for other stuff too)

Sorry, I don't have the time to go through a bunch of out of tree
branches to figure this out.  Can you create a simpler test case to
reproduce this?  e.g. Does this happen when building the serial driver
as a module and then removing it?  If not, why not?

Kevin
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