Messages in this thread | | | From | Duncan Sands <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5) | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:06:52 +0200 |
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> Heh. So the correct answer is: > - don't do that. Talking to the same device through usbfs at > the same time by multiple programs is cause for lots of bad > things to happen to your device, and might possibly cause it > to hang. If you want to allow a user to access a device > through usbfs, make sure you trust them.
If usbfs fails to work when a device is accessed by multiple programs then that is a bug in usbfs and should be fixed. Hopefully it's already fixed.
All the best,
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