Re: [PATCH] USB: fix interrupt disabling for HCDs with sharedinterrupt handlers

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 15:16:19 EST


On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:59:38PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Hm, isn't this also an issue in 2.6.25 as well? I've had a few very
> > strange reports of USB just locking up in 2.6.25, could this also be the
> > cause there?
>
> It could go back a lot farther than that. I don't think our interrupt
> setup has been changed significantly for a long time, with one
> exception: We added the IRQF_DISABLED flag fairly recently. But of
> course, we now know that it doesn't do what we expected.
>
> It's surprising that more people haven't experienced this problem and
> reported it.

Ok, I'll queue it up for -stable as well.

> > Alan and Dave, do you both ack this thing? I know you've been involved
> > in creating it, just want to get the formal approval :)
>
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There still are a few places where spaces were used instead of tabs for
> indenting. Aside from that it looks fine.

Thanks, I'll clean that up by hand, not a big deal :)

greg k-h
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