[PATCH][v3.8.y] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

Hello, Please consider including upstream commit: 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc in the next v3.8.y release. It was included upstream as of v3.9-rc1. It has been tested and confirmed to resolve http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180419 . commit 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc Au

[PATCH] staging: comedi: COMEDI_CANCEL ioctl should wake up read/write

Comedi devices can do blocking read() or write() (or poll()) if an asynchronous command has been set up, blocking for data (for read()) or buffer space (for write()). Various events associated with the asynchronous command will wake up the blocked reader or writer (or poller). It is also possible

Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: avoid memleak for subdevice private

On 2013-07-05 17:47, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: On Friday, July 05, 2013 8:30 AM, Ian Abbott wrote: `comedi_alloc_spriv()` allocates private storage for a comedi subdevice and sets the `SRF_FREE_SPRIV` flag in the `runflags` member of the subdevice to allow the private storage to be automatically