Greg: The following series of patches fixes a bunch of problems that crop up when a UHCI host controller is unexpectedly removed from a running system. The people at Stratus Technologies identified many of these problems when testing their fault-tolerant (automatic failover) servers. The problems have been reported in Red Hat's Bugzilla #579093. With these patches, the Stratus tests complete successfully. I won't bother to describe the individual patches here; each has its own description. Three of them are changes to usbcore; oddly enough only minimal changes were needed in uhci-hcd. None of these fixes are critical in any sense. Everybody has been running perfectly well without them for many years; thus they do not need to go into 2.6.35 or the stable kernels. (However the Red Hat people may want to include them in the current RHEL kernel.) Patch 2/4 in this series supersedes the patch that Robert Evans submitted earlier. I realized that the test at the start of usb_hcd_poll_rh_status() could be made reliable, which is better than removing it entirely. 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
