Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb: gadget: core: wait gadget device .release finishing at usb_del_gadget_udc

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Hi,

Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 10:48:29AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 02:06:20PM +0000, Peter Chen wrote:
>> >> > And this no-op function is horrid.  There used to be documentation in
>> >> > the kernel where I could rant about this, but instead, I'll just say,
>> >> > "why are people trying to work around warnings we put in the core kernel
>> >> > to fix common problems?  Do they think we did that just because we
>> >> > wanted to be mean???"
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> So, like kernel doc for device_initialize said, a proper fix for dwc3
>> >> should be zeroed gadget device memory at its own driver before the 
>> >> gadget device register to driver core, right?
>> >
>> > It should get a totally different, dynamically allocated structure.
>> > NEVER recycle them.
>> 
>> then we break usage of container_of(). That's okay, but we have to add
>> some sort of private_data to the gadget structure so UDC drivers can get
>> their own pointers back.
>
> As you've probably seen by now, Peter solved this problem by storing the 
> private back-pointer in gadget->dev.platform_data.

Cool, as long as we have a solution :-)

-- 
balbi

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