On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:53:00PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > We aren't sure if this is the correct way to solve the problem and are > > looking for guidance from people more knowledgable. > > > > Thoughts? > > It's not the best solution. We want to prevent this failure mode from > _ever_ occurring, not just from occurring when the controller has been > removed. > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > > -- > > Note: this problem was discovered, analyzed, and solved on RHEL-6 which is > > closely related to 2.6.32 with regards to the usb2 stack. The customer > > doesn't have the time to use upstream kernels. The changes in this area > > since 2.6.32 seemed minimal enough, that I believe the problem is still > > relevant. > > See what they think of the patch below. Note: Totally untested. I > haven't tried running it myself. Thanks! I'll pass it along and hope to get some feedback in the next couple of days. Cheers, Don -- 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