HEADSUP new usb code coming in.

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 20 00:04:38 UTC 2008


In message: <48AB566B.5010507 at mawer.org>
            Antony Mawer <fbsd-current at mawer.org> writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > From: Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com>
: > Subject: Re: HEADSUP new usb code coming in. 
: > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:18:13 -0700
: > 
: >> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:44:20 +0200 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>  wrote:
: >>> New stuff (all of which I can remember right now):
: >> 	...
: >>
: >> Accidentally unplugging a mounted USB disk (without
: >> unmounting it) resulted in a hang or a crash.  Is this fixed?
: > 
: > That's fixed in -current right now with the old stack.  It isn't a usb
: > issue at all, but a buffer cache issue.
: 
: Is this change that is likely to be MFC'd in time for 7.1? And/or is 
: there a specific patch that can manually be applied to -STABLE to fix this?

I should spend the time to dig into the changes in current.  There
turned out to be several little changes...  And I need to verify all
the edge cases were covered...

Warner


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