Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:44:47 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Oops in vanilla 2.4.22 serial-usb driver |
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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,
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