Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb-serial : fix the nousb oops

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:43:04AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, they will, at lease I saw usb_serial/aircable/ftdi_sio oops. I
> will manage to copy the oops message later.
> 
> >
> >> 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?
> 
> No, it is not new thing.  usb serial drivers normally call
> usb_serial_register first, then usb_register, usb_register will fail
> due to "nousb" checking, but usb_serial_register no.

But as usb_register will fail, shouldn't they properly back out and no
oopses happen?  This sounds like a simple fix to the drivers that are
failing here, not changing the usb-serial core.

And this should only be an issue if you build your drivers into the
kernel, right?

thanks,

greg k-h