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Re: [PATCH] libertas: clear current command on card removal

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On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 17:01 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > If certain commands were in-flight when the card was pulled or the
> > driver rmmod-ed, cleanup would block on the work queue stopping, but the
> > work queue was in turn blocked on the current command being canceled,
> > which didn't happen.  Fix that.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > John, this is 2.6.27 material if there's still time.
> 
> I have to remind you of the new "regressions only" policy.  Is this a
> problem that we introduced in old code during the 2.6.27 merge window?

True :)  It is not a regression from 2.6.26, but a fairly serious bug
that has existed for some time.  Thus, treat it as you like to avoid
getting flamed by Linus & Dave.

I'll post to stable after 2.6.27 comes out then.

Dan


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