On 10/10/2013, at 16:59, Hans Petter Selasky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It might under some circumstances but not directly.
>> 
>> It has 3 sub interfaces, if there is an error on one the the DAQ program 
>> will call abort() which would result in FDs being closed.
>> 
>> However that sub interface does not use read/poll only ioctl.
>> 
> How do these IOCTLs work?

They get turned into UT_READ_VENDOR_DEVICE requests in the driver.

> Do you wakeup any sleepers at "surprise" detach?


The usb_fifo_* code handles all wakeups so I am not sure.

Generally speaking the DAQ program sees these as IO errors and will then call 
abort() because the original code was for a PCI device and so it assumed the 
device could never disappear.

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