Re: [PATCH v4] drivercore: deferral race condition fix

From: Grant Likely
Date: Tue Apr 29 2014 - 10:44:23 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:35:09PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
>> When the kernel is built with CONFIG_PREEMPT it is possible to reach a state
>> when all modules loaded but some driver still stuck in the deferred list
>> and there is a need for external event to kick the deferred queue to probe
>> these drivers.
[...]
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> This change needs to go into 3.15. I've got this patch in the
>> devicetree/merge branch of my tree and can ask Linus to pull it directly
>> if you would like.
>
> Sure, that would be fine:
>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Greg

I'll give it a few days in linux-next and then ask Linus to pull.

g.
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