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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 usb(?) oops
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:16:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020420181649.GA18542@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204201533.50375.kiza@gmx.net> <20020420152041.GA17327@kroah.com> <16yyR4-0BqCa8C@fmrl04.sul.t-online.com>

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:14:51PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 17:20, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Oliver Feiler wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This oops occurs everytime I use kpilot to hotsync my Handpsring Visor.
> >
> > As per the archives, use this patch to fix this problem:
> > 	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101735261202744
> 
> By the way, module usage count handling in the visor driver has
> a race. You increment it after down() which can sleep.

The whole module usage count handling in the usb-serial drivers is
messed up in the 2.4 tree :)

This is hopefully finally fixed in 2.5 right now, and I'll be
backporting these changes to 2.4 after 2.4.19 comes out.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-20 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-20 13:33 2.4.18 usb(?) oops Oliver Feiler
2002-04-20 15:20 ` Greg KH
2002-04-20 17:14   ` Oliver Neukum
2002-04-20 18:16     ` Greg KH [this message]

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