Re: [PATCH] Properly unregister reboot notifier in case of failurein ehci hcd

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 22:14:28 EST


On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
Aleksey Gorelov <dared1st@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If some problem occurs during ehci startup, for instance, request_irq fails, echi hcd driver
> tries it best to cleanup, but fails to unregister reboot notifier, which in turn leads to crash on
> reboot/poweroff. Below is the patch against current git to fix this.
> I did not check if the same problem existed for uhci/ohci host drivers.

This patch causes hangs at reboot/shutdown/suspend time. See
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/dsc03597.jpg
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