On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:51:16PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > Off the LKML now... For those who just tuned in, this continues a > thread starting with > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107487719002239&w=2 > > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Greg KH wrote: > > > That patch that Alan pointed to is wrong anyway, it dies a horrible > > death, and was only a hack to try something. > > Really? I didn't see any problems in it. Do you remember just what was > wrong with the patch?
Did you try it? It dies horribly. Now that means either that we have our reference counting all wrong, or the patch isn't sane. I didn't take the time to check out either. > > I think it might be a better idea to just prevent the module unload of > > the USB host controller until all drivers bound to devices owned by it > > are also unbound in order to fix these kinds of problems. > > That sounds too extreme. How is someone supposed to unbind all the > drivers, if they want to unload the HCD, short of unloading them too? > What about the hub driver bound to the virtual root hub? -- there's no way > to unbind that. Yeah, icky hub driver :( > I thought the whole problem was simply that the HCD module was unloading > before it had finished releasing its bus. If that is fixed, shouldn't > everything else be okay? Yes, it should. But as bug reports show, this isn't fixed yet :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
