From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4]: USB: ftdi_sio: fix regression in 2.6.31 and clean up
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:33:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007193329.GA2977@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254938707-6996-1-git-send-email-jhovold@gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:05:03PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches clean up the ftdi_sio driver and fixes
>
> 1) a long outstanding bug manifesting itself as
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280
>
> 2) a couple of regressions in 2.6.31 (stalled reads and unthrottle race)
> due to changes in the tty layer.
>
> Please have a look at it so we can get something back-ported to stable as the
> ftdi_sio driver is currently completly broken and unusable due to the stalled
> reads.
>
> Note that the patches do not add suspend/resume support to the driver (but the
> clean up should make it easier to implement).
>
> Thanks to Alan Cox, Oliver Neukum, and Alan Stern for all comments and
> suggestions so far.
Very nice, thanks for doing this work, I really appreciate it. I'll
queue it up as soon as possible.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 18:05 [PATCH 0/4]: USB: ftdi_sio: fix regression in 2.6.31 and clean up Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] USB: ftdi_sio: remove tty->low_latency Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] USB: ftdi_sio: remove unused rx_byte counter Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] USB: ftdi_sio: clean up read completion handler Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 18:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] USB: ftdi_sio: re-implement read processing Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 19:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
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