Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [OOPS, usbcore, releaseintf] 2.6.0-test10-mm1

From: Alan Stern (stern_at_rowland.harvard.edu)
Date: 12/13/03

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    Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:10:55 -0500 (EST)
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>

    On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:

    > > Hoever the consequent changes to the device structure (i.e., everything
    > > needed to reflect the fact that it is disconnected) could be done in
    > > another thread.
    >
    > Please clarify. You have to disconnect() before you do the physical reset.

    No you don't. In fact, that would defeat one of the purposes of
    usb_reset_device, which is to re-initialize the device while leaving an
    existing driver bound to it (so far as I know that feature is only used by
    usb-storage). It's a last-ditch form of error recovery.

    The API has an admitted weak spot when more than one driver is bound to
    the device. No one has settled on a definite policy for how to handle
    that situation.

    > IMHO you should do the code paths for late errors and the device morphed
    > case in another thread, but what's the benefit for success?

    In the success case there are no errors, the device hasn't morphed, and
    there's no need to do anything in another thread. The existing driver(s)
    can remain bound, usb_reset_device returns 0, and nothing more has to be
    done.

    Alan Stern

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