Hi, if read is cleaned up, O_NONBLOCK is trivial to support. Comments? Regards Oliver -- commit 5dab1a11bc706d1bd087b63d705db98e8c1913d2 Author: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 9 14:23:52 2009 +0200 usb:usb-skeleton: nonblocking IO in the read path diff --git a/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c b/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c index 7441df2..ef8c877 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c +++ b/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c @@ -268,6 +268,11 @@ retry: spin_unlock_irq(&dev->err_lock); if (ongoing_io) { + /* nonblocking IO shall not wait */ + if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) { + rv = -EAGAIN; + goto exit; + } /* * IO may take forever * hence wait in an interruptible state @@ -351,8 +356,9 @@ retry: rv = skel_do_read_io(dev, count); if (rv < 0) goto exit; - else - goto retry; + else if (!file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) + goto retry; + rv = -EAGAIN; } exit: mutex_unlock(&dev->io_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