Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver

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To: Greg KH <greg@...>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...>, USB development list <linux-usb-devel@...>, Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Friday, November 16, 2007 - 4:45 pm

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

The latter. We just happen to kick the wireless device in the head by
toggling its out-of-band reset signal when we unload the driver, which
causes us to trigger this "unlikely" race with almost 100% reliability.
But it's always been there, AFAICT.


Yeah, I think so.

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dwmw2

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Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver, David Woodhouse, (Fri Nov 16, 4:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver, David Woodhouse, (Fri Nov 16, 1:04 pm)