On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:53:53AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I see an Oops in the SCSI code, caused by the fact that sdkp is NULL > > in sd_shutdown. "How can that be?", you will ask - dev->driver_data was set > > in sd_probe. But in my case sd_probe never finished. An insmod usb-storage > > hangs forever, or at least for more than six hours, giving ample opportunity > > to observe this race between sd_probe and sd_shutdown. > > (Of course sd_probe hangs in sd_revalidate disk.) > > Well, this same problem could show upb in any other driver. Could > you instead send a patch to Pat that the driver model never calls > the shutdown method for a driver that hasn't finished ->probe?
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