Re: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: Oops when USB Serial disconnected whilein use

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Aug 26 2009 - 22:19:59 EST


On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Bruno [UTF-8] Prémont wrote:

> Change applied to usb-serial.c, serial_instal().
> Tried it out with both pl2302 and ftdi-sio, no visible issues!
>
> Actions I tried: connect, disconnect (with minicom running as well as
> without), start/stop minicom multiple times.
>
> I've seen nothing unexpected or bad in kernel log (just a note that
> some sending failed while typing into minicom and pulling the USB
> plug: pl2303_write_bulk_callback - failed resubmitting write urb, error -19)

Great! Okay, I'll break this up into a bunch of logically separate
patches and submit them for 2.6.32. When they have gotten sufficient
testing, they can be back-ported into 2.6.31.stable.

Alan Stern

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