On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:30:01AM -0400, Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> From: On Behalf Of Greg KH
> > In 2.6, throttle can be called in interrupt context too.  See 
> > the recent
> > visor fix that was required for this.
> 
> patch-2.6.11 and patch-2.6.10 don't contain the fix you are refering
> to. Where am I looking?

2.6.12-rc5

> > > So it seems to me that usbserial is fundamentally broken. Am I
> > > correct? Is there any way to clean this up? Yes I'm volunteering.
> > 
> > Probably.  Backport the 2.6 changes :)
> 
> Yes, well. The change in 2.6 is that usbserial.c has dropped the
> semaphore altogether, and there's a work queue now as well. I'm not
> sure that dropping the semaphore in 2.4.latest is safe (even though
> not dropping it is broken), and backporting the work queue
> implementation may be too large.

I agree, hence the ":)"

thanks,

greg k-h


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