Hi, poll() should test for a disconnection of the device. Regards Oliver Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> -- commit 1de37cb76ada5abc59f4b0a1037b251188579803 Author: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@linux-d698.(none)> Date: Thu Jul 2 16:52:22 2009 +0200 usb: ldusb: return an error in poll if device is unplugged diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c index ad4fb15..90f1301 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c @@ -412,6 +412,9 @@ static unsigned int ld_usb_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) dev = file->private_data; + if (!dev->intf) + return POLLERR | POLLHUP; + poll_wait(file, &dev->read_wait, wait); poll_wait(file, &dev->write_wait, wait); @@ -767,6 +770,9 @@ static void ld_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf) ld_usb_delete(dev); } else { dev->intf = NULL; + /* wake up pollers */ + wake_up_interruptible_all(&dev->read_wait); + wake_up_interruptible_all(&dev->write_wait); mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex); } -- 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