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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4]: USB: ftdi_sio: fix regression in 2.6.31 and clean up
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:33:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007193329.GA2977@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254938707-6996-1-git-send-email-jhovold@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:05:03PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> These patches clean up the ftdi_sio driver and fixes
> 
>  1) a long outstanding bug manifesting itself as 
>  
>  	BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280
> 
>  2) a couple of regressions in 2.6.31 (stalled reads and unthrottle race)
>     due to changes in the tty layer.
> 
> Please have a look at it so we can get something back-ported to stable as the
> ftdi_sio driver is currently completly broken and unusable due to the stalled
> reads.
> 
> Note that the patches do not add suspend/resume support to the driver (but the
> clean up should make it easier to implement).
> 
> Thanks to Alan Cox, Oliver Neukum, and Alan Stern for all comments and
> suggestions so far.

Very nice, thanks for doing this work, I really appreciate it.  I'll
queue it up as soon as possible.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 18:05 [PATCH 0/4]: USB: ftdi_sio: fix regression in 2.6.31 and clean up Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] USB: ftdi_sio: remove tty->low_latency Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] USB: ftdi_sio: remove unused rx_byte counter Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] USB: ftdi_sio: clean up read completion handler Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] USB: ftdi_sio: re-implement read processing Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 19:33 ` Greg KH [this message]

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