On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:33:51PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > 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.) Why RHEL? Because they have done something odd to their kernel? curious, greg k-h -- 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
