On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > I have no problem with exporting this feature at all. It is necessary for > what you want to do and what you want to do is useful. > My problem is with the API to user space. I suggest that you add this > to the storage driver not generic USB code and all is well. Do you mean _both_ storage drivers (usb-storage and ub)? What about future storage drivers (UASP)? You can see why I preferred to add it in the core... > You could even make an API that makes the storage driver unregister > the SCSI host but retain its binding to the device until it tells usbcore > to disable the port. That closes the race with probe(). There is no need to worry about races with probe, as far as usb-storage is concerned. Probe and unbind are already sufficiently mutually exclusive. I don't know about ub. > Can you live with that? Alan Stern -- 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
