Am Wednesday 04 February 2009 00:58:14 schrieb Greg KH: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:43:04AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > No, it is not new thing. usb serial drivers normally call > > usb_serial_register first, then usb_register, usb_register will fail > > due to "nousb" checking, but usb_serial_register no. > > But as usb_register will fail, shouldn't they properly back out and no > oopses happen? This sounds like a simple fix to the drivers that are > failing here, not changing the usb-serial core. usb_register() can also fail for other reasons. There's no way you can save drivers from needing to cleanly fail in that case. > And this should only be an issue if you build your drivers into the > kernel, right? No, you can load drivers by other methods than udev. 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
