On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

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> BTW, below is a simplified version of the patch, without the mutex protecting
> suspending_task.  I'd like to push it upstream if it looks good.

It does look good.  Go ahead and push.

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

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> Please also have a look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10030.
> There seems to be another issue related to us holding devices' semaphores.
> Namely, it looks like, when the user removes the card, a concurrent thread
> (from a workqueue) calls device_del() and blocks on the dev->sem held by
> us and then something else deadlocks with this thread.  I'll be looking into
> this tomorrow.

I've been too busy with other things to look at the activity on that 
bug report.  Tonight or tomorrow...

Alan Stern

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