[PATCH] USB: set device dma_mask without reference to global data
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue May 7 19:42:11 EDT 2013
On Wednesday 08 May 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:53:52PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>
> So this needs to go in for 3.10, right? Any older kernels as well? If
> so, which ones?
The fix should definitely go into 3.10, but I'd suggest waiting with
the backport for a couple of -rc releases to avoid possible regressions.
We know that the current code is broken, but few people fully understand
what is going on with coherent_dma_mask, so it might cause new problems
in combination with some other unknown bug, and I don't see this as
urgent: none of the ARM defconfigs build this driver as a loadable
module and there is no bug in the built-in case. For some reason, only
the ARM back-end drivers are broken.
The first occurence was apparently in 3.3, but only in ehci-tegra.c,
while the other drivers subsequently copied the bug.
Arnd
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