On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:12:58AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Greg,

Adding linux-usb-devel to the CC:

> How would you feel about something like this?
> 
> Index: cw-current/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
> ===================================================================
> --- cw-current.orig/drivers/usb/core/devio.c  2005-01-19 14:52:27.987890276 
> -0800
> +++ cw-current/drivers/usb/core/devio.c       2005-01-22 18:09:22.753895659 
> -0800
> @@ -417,10 +417,7 @@
>               return -EINVAL;
>       if (test_bit(ifnum, &ps->ifclaimed))
>               return 0;
> -     /* if not yet claimed, claim it for the driver */
> -     dev_warn(&ps->dev->dev, "usbfs: process %d (%s) did not claim interface 
> %u before use\n",
> -            current->pid, current->comm, ifnum);
> -     return claimintf(ps, ifnum);
> +     return -EINVAL;
>  }
>  
>  static int findintfep(struct usb_device *dev, unsigned int ep)


Um, why?  I think this is there to help with "broken" userspace code
that was written before we enforced the rules of "you must claim an
interface before using it."  As such, I don't think we can apply this
patch.

thanks,

greg k-h
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