On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:26:29PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > Commit 4746b6c6efcdc3f5ef84f0bc2c39707c6b4e5e24 upstream. > > Backported for 3.9-stable. Adjusted context. > > From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> > > No need to grab disconnect mutex in chars_in_buffer now that no > sub-driver is or should be querying hardware buffers anymore. (They > should use wait_until_sent.) > > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Why is this needed in the 3.9-stable tree? Are you sure all the drivers are fixed up there? What bug does this fix? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html