Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 36/98] usb: serial: handle -ENODEV quietly in generic_submit_read_urb

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:39:29AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 04f9c6e6d17584340fb6c8a9469a0e6df28876d2 ]
> >
> > If a USB serial device (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0) with an active program is
> > unplugged, an -ENODEV (19) error will be produced after it gives up
> > trying to resubmit a read.
> >
> >   usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb - usb_submit_urb failed: -19
> >
> > Add -ENODEV as one of the permanent errors along with -EPERM that
> > usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb() handles quietly without an error.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This isn't a bug fix, but more of a clean up patch and hence does not
> qualify for stable. So specifically the stable tag was left out on
> purpose.
>
> I never got a chance to talk to you in Edinburgh, but Greg mentioned you
> had an opt-out list for your autosel work which I'd like to be added to.
>
> I always mark bug fixes that qualify for stable as such so anything else
> that your process picks up would already have been considered and
> rejected by me.

I'll drop it, thanks Johan!

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Thanks,
Sasha