Re: [PATCH 1/3] usb console: fix mutex lock regression

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 23:25:51 EST


On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Jason Wessel wrote:

> During the 2.6.32 development the use of serial->disc_mutex was
> introduced. In usb_console_setup() the call to
> usb_serial_get_by_index() will obtain this mutex. The
> usb_console_setup() must release the mutex before it completes else
> later calls to the usb serial core will hang.

Apparently you didn't see my patch:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=125209260714221&w=2

Did this not get into linus-next? Greg?

Alan Stern

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