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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> I would say your first mistake is to use PREEMPT :) There are various
> issues with PREEMPT on ppc32 that have not really been addressed so far,
> and the USB code has some "holes" that I wouldn't trust in a PREEMPT
> environment.
> 

What do you mean exactly? Should CONFIG_PREEMPT not be used?
And what about CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY?

Vivenzio