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

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Fri Jul 08 2011 - 13:43:51 EST


On Jul 08 Alan Stern wrote:
> In general, adding support for USB-3.0 has been a tremendous job (of
> which Sarah has done the lion's share of the work), involving not just
> adding a new driver but also making significant changes to the
> subsystem core. Those changes have been sufficiently complicated that
> things haven't settled down yet.
>
> Particularly since it has now become clear that a key implementation
> decision (to allocate periodic bandwidth dynamically, as it is used,
> rather than statically) needs to be reversed. The fan-out effects from
> this will require changes to several other drivers as well, and this is
> all still in the design stage. Thus, we are forced to limp along with
> a hacky, not-entirely-correct implementation until everything can be
> put right. I don't expect this to happen quickly.

OK, fair enough. I acknowledge that such a scope expansion at all layers
of the subsystem is a difficult undertaking. Plus, you had working
patches that addressed my issue, even before I got around to report it.
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Stefan Richter
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