Re: khubd crash on scanner disconnect

From: Matthias Andree
Date: Sat Jan 31 2004 - 09:31:54 EST


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:36:56PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just caught this khubd NULL dereference simply by unplugging my
> > scanner. Kernel is a current 2.6.2-rc2 from BK, PNP enabled:
>
> Known bug, don't use that module, it's OBSOLETED. Use xscane and libusb
> instead.

Well, if it's "obsoleted" AND "broken", why not remove it from Kconfig
altogether, just leaving a pointer "scanner has been replaced by
libusb"?

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Matthias Andree

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