On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:33, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:03:48PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: >> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> >> >> Some broken devices indicates that media has changed on every >> GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION. This translates into MEDIA_CHANGE >> uevent on every open() which lets udev run into a loop. >> >> Verify GET_EVENT result against TUR and if it generates spurious >> events for several times in a row, ignore the GET_EVENT events, and >> trust only the TUR status. > James, ping. This is a rather urgent fix, that needs to go in, and also to -stable. Systems run into endless loops with ever-growing event queues. Nothing really works any more if we hit that condition, unless the (broken) device is disconnected. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
