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SubjectRe: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [OOPS, usbcore, releaseintf] 2.6.0-test10-mm1
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On Monday 08 December 2003 17:03, David Brownell wrote:
> Duncan Sands wrote:
> > Hi Vince, I'm not sure, but it looks like a bug in the USB core.
> > I was kind of expecting this :) My patch causes devio.c to hold
> > a reference to the usb_device maybe long after the device has
> > been disconnected. This is supposed to be OK, but from your
>
> ... no, that's not supposed to be OK. Returning from disconnect()
> means that a device driver is no longer referencing the interface
> the driver bound to, or ep0.

Well, I thought Greg wanted it to be OK :) Anyway, I don't use
the device after disconnect except to take the semaphore
(dev->serialize), check for disconnection (dev->state), and
of course to execute a usb_put_dev. Surely this usage should
be OK?

Ciao,

Duncan.
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