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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to kthread conversion
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On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net>
> 
> commit d2dd0b07c3e725d386d20294ec906f7ddef207fa upstream.
> 
> When doing a usb port reset do a queued reset instead to prevent a
> deadlock: the reset will cause the driver to unbind, causing the
> usb_driver_lock_for_reset to stall.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net>
> Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi <hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Max Vozeler <max@vozeler.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> 

I think either the subject line is misleading or the patch is not
needed in -stable. The kthread conversion was done in 2.6.38, so
any bug introduced by it would not need to be fixed in an earlier
version, afaict.

	Arnd