From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752787Ab1DRGCQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:02:16 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36533 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751693Ab1DRGCL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:02:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:02:55 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Arjan Mels , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Max Vozeler Subject: Re: [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to kthread conversion Message-ID: <20110418060255.GC22168@suse.de> References: <20110413155144.231263288@clark.kroah.org> <201104172215.01736.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201104172215.01736.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:15:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Greg KH wrote: > > From: Arjan Mels > > > > 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 > > Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi > > Cc: Max Vozeler > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > 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. Yes, the Subject: was incorrect, and I only realized it after it was committed to the tree, sorry. The bug fixes were still real. thanks, greg k-h