On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, [UTF-8] Ozan Ã?aÄ?layan wrote: > Bruno Prémont wrote: > > I tried bisecting this but bisect did end up on a fully unrelated commit > > (which is not even being compiled into my kernel). > > Possibly the failed bisect could be related to mis-classified kernel > > panic/hang while pulling the USB cable (there were two such panics for the > > whole iteration)? > > > > There are quite a few patches touching tty, ttyUSB and friends between > > rc4 and now so pretty hard to guess on the correct one. > > > > The oops always happens when I disconnect the USB serial console (here > > the one built into Marvell SheevaPlug) while having minicom connected > > to it. > > During the bisection for the last few bad iterations minicom got killed > > (segfault), the bad ones on the iteration left a minicom zombie in 'D' > > state. > > > > Regards, > > Bruno > > > > > > That may be a related/possible fix for that, > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b68f2fb9e73f46037fbeca5fbd4ae8a7ddd8ef6b That patch is already present in 2.6.31-rc5. The problem here may be related to the fact that the serial port is being used as a console. For non-console ports this doesn't happen. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
