Copied to linux-usb-devel, as they should also see this...

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:10:18 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg KH  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:43:23AM -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote:
>>> Well, we only create the host when the device is first attached. After
>>> that, if it goes away and comes back, we re-connect it to the old SCSI
>>> host.
>>
>>Ick, so when the device is gone, where does the SCSI host go?  Is it
>>still represented in sysfs and in the SCSI core properly?
> 
> This is pure and utter USB storage stupidity, and nothing else.
> 
> When the USB storage device is unplugged, the device should be
> unregistered.  It should be _gone_.  It isn't sleeping, it's dead.  It's
> an ex-device.

Agreed, I thought most of that logic had been removed from the
usb-storage driver as the SCSI layer can now handle removing devices just
fine (or so Mike Anderson tells me :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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