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SubjectRe: Oops in vanilla 2.4.22 serial-usb driver
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:31:25PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:27:57PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > > > > BTW, is there any way to restart khubd without rebooting?
> > > >
> > > > Nope, sorry.
> > >
> > > Are there any technical reasons behind that, or that just that it is
> > > not implemented?
> >
> > It's a bit hard to restart a kernel thread that is oopsed :)
>
> Yes, but still, with a completely modular USB subsystem, removing all
> the modules and reinsrting them (when possible) restarts khubd... So
> if it is possible with modules, it ought to be possible with
> monolithic USB...

Usually when khubd oopses like this, a usb module is stuck with a
incremented reference count which prevents the usbcore from being able
to be unloaded.

But hey, patches are always accepted :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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