Re: Oops in vanilla 2.4.22 serial-usb driver

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:17:00PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > This happened at the end of a Palm sync.
> > The machine went on, but USB is not irresponsive to USB attach/detach
> > since khubd is dead. The USB low-level driver is UHCI_ALT, compiled
> > in-kernel.
> 
> This should be fixed in the 2.4.23-pre tree now.  If you want, you can
> try applying the patch at:
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.4/usb-serial-02-2.4.23-pre3.patch
> if you don't want the whole -pre tree.

That's what I had figured out from looking at the 23rcX changelogs and
diffs.

> > BTW, is there any way to restart khubd without rebooting?
> 
> Nope, sorry.

Are there any technical reasons behind that, or that just that it is
not implemented?
 
> Let me know if this doesn't solve the problem for you.

I won't be able to test until later today, but I will let you know.

Thanks,
Phil.