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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 07:51:17 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb-serial : fix the nousb oops
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 06:53:23PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> In case with "nousb" booting, serial drivers will trigger kernel oops.

They will?  What is the oops message?

> Here add usb_disabled() check in usb_serial_init and usb_serial_register

This is odd, is it something new?  Why is usb-serial the only driver
that needs such a thing?

confused,

greg k-h