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From: Sau Dan Lee <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] Bug Fix: 2.6.{5,6,7-rc1}: i8042 module unload bug
Date: 24 May 2004 09:56:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xb7hdu6i7gl.fsf@savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xb71xlwtz9s.fsf@savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de


I'm wondering why 2.6.7-rc1 does NOT contain the following patch.

        See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/10/63


--- linux-2.6.7-rc1/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
+++ linux-2.6.7-rc1.i8042-shutdown-fix/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
@@ -990,24 +990,28 @@
 	unregister_reboot_notifier(&i8042_notifier);
 
 	if (i8042_pm_dev)
 		pm_unregister(i8042_pm_dev);
 
 	if (i8042_sysdev_initialized) {
 		sysdev_unregister(&device_i8042);
 		sysdev_class_unregister(&kbc_sysclass);
 	}
 
-	del_timer_sync(&i8042_timer);
-
 	i8042_controller_cleanup();
 	
+	/* we must delete the timer AFTER the i8042 chip is cleaned up,
+	   so as to prevent any more interrupts to invoke i8042_interrupt()
+	   which then schedules newer timer events.
+	*/
+	del_timer_sync(&i8042_timer);
+
 	if (i8042_kbd_values.exists)
 		serio_unregister_port(&i8042_kbd_port);
 
 	if (i8042_aux_values.exists)
 		serio_unregister_port(&i8042_aux_port);
 	
 	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
 		if (i8042_mux_values[i].exists)
 			serio_unregister_port(i8042_mux_port + i);
 



-- 
Sau Dan LEE                     李守敦(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 

E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-24  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-29 14:36 Bug Report: 2.6.5 broken module dependencies: i8042 and atkbd? Sau Dan Lee
2004-05-03  8:21 ` [PATCH] (fix:oops with rmmod i8042) (was:Bug Report: 2.6.5 broken module dependencies: i8042 and atkbd?) Tuukka Toivonen
2004-05-03 11:46   ` [PATCH] modused: mark some modules as in use (Re: [PATCH] (fix:oops with rmmod i8042)) Sau Dan Lee
2004-05-07  8:30     ` [PATCH] Bug Fix: 2.6.5 broken module dependencies: i8042 and atkbd? Sau Dan Lee
2004-05-10 12:12       ` [PATCH] Bug Fix: 2.6.{5,6}: i8042 module unload bug Sau Dan Lee
2004-05-24  7:56       ` Sau Dan Lee [this message]

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