Re: [PATCH v3] usb/hcd: Send a uevent signaling that the host controller had died

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 01:03:16PM -0600, Raul E Rangel wrote:
> This change will send an OFFLINE event to udev with the ERROR=DEAD
> environment variable set when the HC dies.
> 
> By notifying user space the appropriate policies can be applied.
> i.e.,
>  * Collect error logs.
>  * Notify the user that USB is no longer functional.
>  * Perform a graceful reboot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raul E Rangel <rrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'll wait for a v4 to fix up the bugs 0-day found in this before
reviewing :)

thanks,

greg k-h