Re: 3.0-rc6: USB khubd deadlock when hub is powered down

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Thu Jul 07 2011 - 15:25:10 EST


On Jul 07 Greg KH wrote:
> Can you test Linus's tree, along with a patch sent yesterday from Alan
> Stern to the linux-usb mailing list (attached below)? That should
> resolve this issue, if not, please let us know.

OK. I am using 3.0-rc6-71-g4dd1b49 plus Alan's "USB: additional
regression fix for device removal" now. So far it survived a dozen of
power toggles of the hub and the attached devices. Thanks.

Alan Stern wrote:
> Still, we need to rewrite this stuff. A possible race remains,

On a general level, the last few kernel.org releases have all been rather
weak. Dissatisfied,
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