> Returning minor numbers during serial_disconnect rather than > destroy_serial allows the numbers (and hence device node names) to be > reused even when a process is holding an unplugged device's file open. > This is what users expect to happen, and there's no reason not to do > it. It also has file permissions and security management concerns because an unplug as something changes the permissions on the device being removed now changes the permissions on the wrong device rather than causing an error. That bothers me a bit. -- 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
