On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:10:52AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > This patch (as865) fixes a race in the HCD removal code discovered by > > Milan Plzik. Arrival of an interrupt after the root hub was > > unregistered could cause the root-hub status timer to start up, even > > after it was supposed to have been shut down. The problem is fixed by > > moving the del_timer_sync() call to after the HCD's stop() method, at > > which time IRQ generation should be disabled. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Should this be in 2.6.21 or can it wait until 2.6.22?
It can wait, as far as I am concerned. Probably the only system affected by the race is the one Milan has. :-) Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
