Am Donnerstag, den 01.04.2021, 09:46 +0200 schrieb Johan Hovold: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:21:15PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 31.03.2021, 09:08 +0200 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > on the third hand, the more I look at this, would you mind putting > > sibling_release() with a modified name into usbcore? This functionality > > is not limited to serial drivers. btusb needs it; cdc-acm needs it; > > usbaudio neds it. We have code duplication. > > Tell me about it. ;) Unfortunately, drivers all tend to handle this > slightly different, for example, using a disconnected flag, some claim > more than one other interface, others look like they may be using their > interface data as a flag for other purposes, etc. > > At some point we could unify all this but until then I don't think > putting only half of an interface into core makes much sense. OK, very well, then let's look at this from a fundamental point and design a bit. First, can we disregard the case of more than two interfaces? Regards Oliver
