From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpilo open/close fix
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:41:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090121174146.GD3991@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090112201837.GA19499@ldl.fc.hp.com>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:18:37PM -0700, David Altobelli wrote:
> Fix to hpilo module, patch against 2.6.28.
> The device can take a while to respond to an open/close request, so increase
> the time kernel will wait for response (1 ms to 10ms).
> Also, properly clean up a channel on a failed open, by calling the
> channel close routine. Just freeing the memory isn't sufficient, the device
> needs to be informed that the channel is no longer open, and the device
> memory cleared of references to freed dma buffer.
>
> Please CC me on any replies.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
Am I supposed to be shepharding patches to drivers/misc/hpilo into the
kernel tree? If so, I've been ignoring it, sorry. Is there any becides
this one that you need to go in?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 20:18 [PATCH] hpilo open/close fix David Altobelli
2009-01-21 17:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-21 19:05 ` Altobelli, David
2009-01-21 19:13 ` Greg KH
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