Re: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 11:11:15 EST


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:58 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> This is a bugfix for the 2.6.24.x stable releases.
>
> gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer
> and would not sync with the timer function. This caused a crash
> in gdth_timer() when module was unloaded.
> So del_timer_sync the timer before we delete the cards.
>
> also the reboot notifier function would crash. So unify
> the exit and halt functions with a gdth_shutdown() that's
> called by both.

The patch looks fine now, thanks. Can we actually get a tester just to
make sure there's nothing I missed.

James


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