Re: [Patch] Fix oops on rmmod usb-storage

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 09/29/04

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    To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:17:58 +0100

    On Mer, 2004-09-29 at 14:56, James Bottomley wrote:
    > The key to the solution of this problem is to know what USB is trying to
    > do with the dead device. SCSI is trying to be polite and explicitly
    > kill the outstanding commands before it removes the HBA. Presumably USB
    > is returning something that says this can't be done so the EH gets all
    > the way up to offlining.

    Its nothing to do with USB, rmmod with eh running crashes all the other
    SCSI drivers I've tested too. After the state transition fails you get
    kobject related errors and a crash.

    That makes me suspect whatever is ill is in the scsi core.

    Alan

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