Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:02:55 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to kthread conversion |
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:15:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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.
Yes, the Subject: was incorrect, and I only realized it after it was committed to the tree, sorry.
The bug fixes were still real.
thanks,
greg k-h
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