Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] bug removing ehci-hcd

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 02:42:16 EST


On 6/7/07, Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I remember this one ...

On 6/7/07, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > I wasn't actually able to reproduce the bug myself, but I guess it is
> > pretty obvious that I shouldn't have called cpufreq_unregister_notifier
> > with a spinlock held. I haven't been doing this long enough to know
> > exactly which kernel this patch should be against, so let me know if
> > this ins't good. Thanks!
> >
> >
> > This patch (for the 2.6.21.3 kernel plus previously sent cpufreq
> > notifier patch) fixes a bug caused by calling
> > cpufreq_unregister_notifier (which can sleep) while holding a spinlock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Hm, this doesn't apply to the 2.6.21.3 kernel.

The cpufreq patches only live in -mm as of now ...

Argh, excuse the noise!

> Can you send both patches merged together?
>
> And is the fix already in Linus's tree?

And you clearly meant gregkh-usb-usb-ehci-cpufreq-fix.patch
here ... (btw, no, I don't see this in the latest git)

Satyam
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