On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:24:18AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, David Howells wrote: > > > > > Add a USB subsystem notification mechanism whereby notifications about > > > hardware events such as device connection, disconnection, reset and I/O > > > errors, can be reported to a monitoring process asynchronously. > > > > USB I/O errors covers an awfully large and vague field. Do we really > > want to include them? I'm doubtful. > > See the other patch on the linux-usb list that wanted to start adding > KOBJ_CHANGE notifications about USB "i/o errors". That patch wanted to add notifications only for enumeration failures (assuming you're talking about the patch from Eugeniu Rosca), not I/O errors in general. > So for "severe" issues, yes, we should do this, but perhaps not for all > of the "normal" things we see when a device is yanked out of the system > and the like. Then what counts as a "severe" issue? Anything besides enumeration failure? Alan Stern