Re: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: Oops when USB Serial disconnected while in use

Alan Stern
2009-08-27T02:19:50Z

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Bruno [UTF-8] PrÃ©mont wrote:

> Change applied to usb-serial.c, serial_instal().
> Tried it out with both pl2302 and ftdi-sio, no visible issues!
>
> Actions I tried: connect, disconnect (with minicom running as well as
> without), start/stop minicom multiple times.
>
> I've seen nothing unexpected or bad in kernel log (just a note that
> some sending failed while typing into minicom and pulling the USB
> plug: pl2303_write_bulk_callback - failed resubmitting write urb, error -19)

Great! Okay, I'll break this up into a bunch of logically separate
patches and submit them for 2.6.32. When they have gotten sufficient
testing, they can be back-ported into 2.6.31.stable.

Alan Stern