Greg KH wrote: > Userspace still has the port open, so the number is not reused until > userspace closes the device node. Fix your userspace programs to > properly listen to the hangup signal to know to release the device node > and you should be fine. There's still a bit of a race condition here, isn't there? Is there any good way to deal with that? //Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html