Re: [GIT PATCH] USB patches for 2.6.17

Greg KH
2006-06-23T00:22:39Z

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:17:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> >
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > > I saw this once when debugging the usb code, but could never reproduce
> > > it, so I attributed it to an incomplete build at the time, as a reboot
> > > fixed it.
> > >
> > > Is this easy to trigger for you?
> > >
> >
> > This is the same oops as I posted yesterday: "2.6.17-mm1: oops in
> > Bluetooth stuff, usbdev_open". I haven't seen it since...
> >
>
> That's a kernel-wide list of USB devices, isn't it? Which means that some
> driver other than the bluetooth one has got itself freed up while still
> being on the list.
>
> If so, it could be any driver at all..

Hopefully we have the list locked properly while we are walking it, so
that should not happen, but I'll go back and verify that I got it all
correct...

thanks,

greg k-h