On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:47:28PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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? > > No; because Stratus ships RHEL in their systems, so of course they will > want to see Red Hat put these fixes into RHEL. Ah, ok, that makes sense. thanks, 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
