Re: [PATCH 0/4]: USB: ftdi_sio: fix regression in 2.6.31 and cleanup

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 15:37:44 EST


On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:05:03PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches clean up the ftdi_sio driver and fixes
>
> 1) a long outstanding bug manifesting itself as
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280
>
> 2) a couple of regressions in 2.6.31 (stalled reads and unthrottle race)
> due to changes in the tty layer.
>
> Please have a look at it so we can get something back-ported to stable as the
> ftdi_sio driver is currently completly broken and unusable due to the stalled
> reads.
>
> Note that the patches do not add suspend/resume support to the driver (but the
> clean up should make it easier to implement).
>
> Thanks to Alan Cox, Oliver Neukum, and Alan Stern for all comments and
> suggestions so far.

Very nice, thanks for doing this work, I really appreciate it. I'll
queue it up as soon as possible.

thanks,

greg k-h
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