Re: [PATCH] USB: fix interrupt disabling for HCDs with shared interrupt handlers

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:59:38PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Hm, isn't this also an issue in 2.6.25 as well?  I've had a few very
> > strange reports of USB just locking up in 2.6.25, could this also be the
> > cause there?
> 
> It could go back a lot farther than that.  I don't think our interrupt 
> setup has been changed significantly for a long time, with one 
> exception: We added the IRQF_DISABLED flag fairly recently.  But of 
> course, we now know that it doesn't do what we expected.
> 
> It's surprising that more people haven't experienced this problem and 
> reported it.

Ok, I'll queue it up for -stable as well.

> > Alan and Dave, do you both ack this thing?  I know you've been involved
> > in creating it, just want to get the formal approval :)
> 
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> 
> There still are a few places where spaces were used instead of tabs for 
> indenting.  Aside from that it looks fine.

Thanks, I'll clean that up by hand, not a big deal :)

greg k-h