On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:18:40PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > In the absence of far-reaching changes to the API, my suggestion is to
> > have the emulated SCSI bus reset code in usb-storage do nothing but log an
> > error message and return an error code.  For the time being, considering
> > how infrequently these resets occur, we can simply rely on the user
> > unplugging the USB cable and putting it back in or cycling the power to
> > the drive.  (Yes, there are situations where these resets crop up
> > regularly -- but they are the result of some other incompatibility that a
> > device reset won't fix anyway.)
> 
> OK, as the consensus seems to be that in the short run changing things
> for a full reset implementation is not worth it, here's an implementation
> that does the best we can do without.
> It issues a reset only if we can be sure that there are no other users
> of the device in question.
> As the version currently in the storage driver is broken anyway,
> this is a definite improvement. And it addresses the need of exporting
> the probe/remove functions for storage's sake.

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h


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