Re: 2.4.18 usb(?) oops

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:14:51PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 17:20, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Oliver Feiler wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This oops occurs everytime I use kpilot to hotsync my Handpsring Visor.
> >
> > As per the archives, use this patch to fix this problem:
> > 	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101735261202744
> 
> By the way, module usage count handling in the visor driver has
> a race. You increment it after down() which can sleep.

The whole module usage count handling in the usb-serial drivers is
messed up in the 2.4 tree :)

This is hopefully finally fixed in 2.5 right now, and I'll be
backporting these changes to 2.4 after 2.4.19 comes out.

thanks,

greg k-h