Re: [stable] [patch 25/28] USB: cdc-acm: fix sysfs attribute registration bug

Alan Stern
2007-08-24T18:00:11Z

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> > Odd. This doesn't include the entire patch; the second hunk is
> > missing. It should go on to say:
> >
> > @@ -1109,10 +1113,12 @@ static void acm_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
> > return;
> > }
> > if (acm->country_codes){
> > - device_remove_file(&intf->dev, &dev_attr_wCountryCodes);
> > - device_remove_file(&intf->dev, &dev_attr_iCountryCodeRelDate);
> > + device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev,
> > + &dev_attr_wCountryCodes);
> > + device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev,
> > + &dev_attr_iCountryCodeRelDate);
> > }
> > - device_remove_file(&intf->dev, &dev_attr_bmCapabilities);
> > + device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev, &dev_attr_bmCapabilities);
>
>
> I thought so too, untill you look at the 2.6.22.5 release, which already
> has that change in it for some reason.
>
> So that part of the patch drops out, it turns out you just reverted
> things back to the way things used to be here :)

I don't understand. The history for stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git at
http://git.kernel.org shows that the commit for my patch, labelled

6b30a4e1c357410a78d7bcb831743b0e99bab4ad,

includes both hunks. And patch-2.6.22.5.bz2 includes both as well.
Something's fishy.

Alan Stern