On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 23:36, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > The philosophy is often called "programming by contract".
> >
> > And the contract is:  usbcore agrees to work with your driver
> > and do everything right, if your driver agrees to do a few
> > specific things.  One of those specific things is never using
> > the device after you return from disconnect(), either directly
> > (as you're doing here) or indirectly (urb still pending, say).
> >
> > If you break such programming contracts, bad things happen;
> > that's part of why the contract exists.  There are lots of
> > components interacting, relying on contracts to be followed,
> > and if they aren't ... it's impractical to guarantee that
> > all the failure modes will always be benign.
> 
> Pity this contract is undocumented.

So add a patch to document it now. Otherwise in 6 months time the
same problem will occur



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