Re: [PATCH 006/149] USB: m66592-udc: peripheral controller driver for M66592

Greg KH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:27:49PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> > David Brownell wrote:
> > > On Saturday 14 July 2007, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> > > > > Does the following patch behave, with all the locking test
> > > > > options in the kernel debug menu enabled?
> > > >
> > > > I applied this patch and I tested on following kernel debug
> > > > menu enabled.
> > > >  - CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
> > > >  - CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> > > >  - CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
> > > >  - CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
> > > >  - CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> > > > When I tested CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP enabled, A kernel did not
> > > > boot at all in my development environment...
> > >
> > > Whoops!  That needs fixing.  :(
> > 
> > I try fixing this problem.
> 
> It's rather far afield from USB!
> 
> 
> > 
> > > Here's the all-rolled-up patch ... if you sign off on the whole
> > > thing, then I expect it should go upstream ASAP.
> > 
> > I made the patch which fixed a problem pointed out in LKML.
> >  - fixed memory leak
> >  - change ep0_buf
> >  - fixed byteswapping
> 
> It doesn't fix the probe() path which returns after error
> without unregistering the IRQ handler, though ... a leak,
> but not a memory leak.
> 
> 
> > Should I submit an email to LKML and linux-usb-devel mailing list
> > after having made a thing including all-rolled-up patch?
> 
> Unfortunately Linus merged a partial fix yesterday ... rather
> than the more complete update which predated it.  (Sigh).
> 
> Greg, do you have a suggestion about how to resolve this mess?
> Unfortunately it seems Linus isn't taking patches direct from
> me lately...

Can the both of you agree on a patch that solves the needed issues for
this driver and send it to me?  I've seen too many patches on this
thread to be able to determine what is correct :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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