On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > From e58722a5fc0c00bceaea1f70d5024f6325ac3a6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:09:41 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] usb: usbfs: Fix deadlock of khubd > > The caller of usbfs_conn_disc_event() already holds usbfs_mutex. > Don't take it again. That's not true. The caller holds usbfs_mutex only when the action is USB_DEVICE_REMOVE. Not when the action is USB_DEVICE_ADD or USB_BUS_*. 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