On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:10:12PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > Hi, > > One of the Linaro stable kernel users has suggested 2c4e3dbf63b39d (usb: > phy: return -ENODEV on failure of try_module_get) as a fix for the > stable kernel. While it's error handling that's being fixed this does > seem like a reasonable candidate, it's a very simple fix and the > behaviour without the change is to return a NULL pointer rather than an > error pointer which callers will interpret as success which isn't good. > > Does this seem reasonable?
What stable kernel are you referring to? This patch is in 3.17 already, and 3.16 is now end-of-life after this next release in a few hours. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
