On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:59:34AM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > On 06/15/2013 06:35 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >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? > > Because you wanted to apply it to the 3.9-stable tree and asked for > a backport? Anyway if you've changed your mind, feel free to drop > this. Yes, you should have read the email thread that we discussed this a bit more, I ended up dropping a number of different patches, and this one is not needed anymore. 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