On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:16:19PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009 17:06:57 schrieb Alan Stern: > > Oliver: > > > > We don't have to worry about the device structure being deallocated > > while the routine is running. If that happens it's a bug in the > > caller: improper refcounting. > > That raises two points > > 1. am I supposed to get a reference just so that I can use dev_err? No, you should already have a reference on the device when doing the call, right? > 2. what happens if this is a soft disconnect and the device is reconnected? > It seems to me that you'd print the wrong driver's name. Then we can live with that, it's not that big of a deal. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
