Hi, I've found that the TIOCMIWAIT ioctl, just returns -EIO if you unplug the device. That seems wrong to me. If we know that a device is gone we should report it. This isn't an ordinary hang up. Patch to follow. Regards Oliver -- 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