Re: [PATCH] Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:30:03PM -0400, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:05, Greg KH<greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:57:06PM -0400, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:27, Alan Stern<stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> >> > Kay, do you want this merged into 2.6.31 or are you okay with waiting
> >> > for 2.6.32-rc1?  It changes a major core routine.  On the other hand,
> >> > the problem it fixes does affect real users.
> >>
> >> I think it should go into -next and we wait a few days. It seems like
> >> the proper fix, but we should make sure, we didn't miss something.
> >>
> >> After that, it would be nice if we can get that into 2.6.31, as we
> >> have several problems already, which are likely solved by this.
> >
> > But as this isn't a regression (it's how things always have worked,
> > right?),
> 
> Yeah, that sounds right, but I guess we have just been the needed bit
> slower in the past, and with the recent speedups I would expect more
> cases to uncover this issue.
> 
> > I'm a bit leary of pushing it to .31 right now, so late in the
> > release cycle.  How about it goes to Linus for .32, and we backport it
> > to -stable if it looks ok?
> 
> Sure, sounds fine too.
> 
> Would be good though to have it in -next soon. Three major distros are
> preparing a new distro release at the moment, and they will likely
> need to add that to their kernel to make this issue, USB firmware
> loading, and similar things working again.

It will show up in the next linux-next release.

thanks,

greg k-h