Re: [BUG, Regression, bisected] USB mouse causes bug on 1st insert,ignored on 2nd insert, lsusb stuck at usbdev_open

From: Phil Turmel
Date: Tue Sep 21 2010 - 10:54:23 EST


On 09/21/2010 10:30 AM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
>> I have just found out that it's actually CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS which
>> makes the difference. When unset, the problem doesn't trigger, and
>> usb_find_interface() always returns the proper interface. When
>> CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is being used, the oops happen.
>>
>> I'll look into that.
>
> Apparently the problem is that intf->minors doesn't get initialized
> properly. This patch should fix it. Everybody, please try it out.

Yes, this works for me. (as did Jiri's version.)

Thank you both for the support.

Feel free to add my:

Tested-by: Philip J. Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx>
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