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

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On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Is this something that you all feel is worth getting in for 2.6.24?
> Does it fix a regression that just showed up, or is just a bugfix for
> something that people finally realized has always been there?

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.

> Can it wait for 2.6.25 to get some more testing in -mm?

Yeah, I think so.

-- 
dwmw2

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