Re: Linux-2.5.28

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:56:26PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:47:39PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:57:26AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > > My third candidate is USB. Systems without USB are clearly more stable.
> > 
> > Hm, then that would imply that all of my systems are unstable :)
> > 
> > Seriously, I don't know of any outstanding 2.5 USB issues that cause
> > oopses right now, or effect stability.  Any problems that people are
> > having, they sure are not telling me, or the other USB developers
> > about...
> 
> I reported an oops at shutdown and provided the trivial fix.
> It is the the standard kernel since 2.5.26, I think.

That patch should be in the latest kernel, thanks.  Let me know if you
are still having that problem in .29

> But there are still other oopses at shutdown for 2.5.27.
> 
> For 2.5.29 I reported
> "> I booted 2.5.29 earlier this evening and was greeted by
>  > kernel BUG at transport.c: 351 and
>  > kernel BUG at scsiglue.c: 150.
>  > (And the usb-storage module now hangs initializing; rmmod fails,
>  > reboot is necessary.)"
> 
> Further improvement of usb-storage is possible.

Oh yeah, I'm not saying that this is not true at all :)
Matt added a BUG_ON() that seems to be hitting a lot of people, but I
guess that was his intention.

thanks,

greg k-h