| From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to kthread conversion | Date | Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:15:01 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Greg KH wrote: > From: Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net> > > commit d2dd0b07c3e725d386d20294ec906f7ddef207fa upstream. > > When doing a usb port reset do a queued reset instead to prevent a > deadlock: the reset will cause the driver to unbind, causing the > usb_driver_lock_for_reset to stall. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net> > Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi <hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net> > Cc: Max Vozeler <max@vozeler.com> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> >
I think either the subject line is misleading or the patch is not needed in -stable. The kthread conversion was done in 2.6.38, so any bug introduced by it would not need to be fixed in an earlier version, afaict.
Arnd
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