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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:55:47 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: fix race condition in get_device_parent()
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:57:02PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> This fell through the crack.  This patch isn't very pretty but it's
> better than having the race condition open.  Greg, can you please
> apply this?

Yes, I'll queue it up and backport it to the -stable trees when it goes
into Linus's tree.

Thanks for the patch.

greg k-h