Re: [BUG, Regression, bisected] USB mouse causes bug on 1stinsert, ignored on 2nd insert, lsusb stuck at usbdev_open

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:30:18AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> > I have just found out that it's actually CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS which 
> > makes the difference. When unset, the problem doesn't trigger, and 
> > usb_find_interface() always returns the proper interface. When 
> > CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is being used, the oops happen.
> > 
> > I'll look into that.
> 
> Apparently the problem is that intf->minors doesn't get initialized 
> properly.  This patch should fix it.  Everybody, please try it out.

Wow, what happened to suddenly cause this?  Nothing has changed here in
a long time.

wierd.

thanks,

greg k-h
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