Greg: This series of patches adds a new, simpler API to the usb-serial core for registering drivers, and changes all the existing drivers to use it. Instead of making separate calls to register the usb_driver and one or more usb_serial drivers, everything can be done with a single function call. Likewise for deregistration. In addition, the order of registration is changed; the new routine will register the usb_driver first. Currently each of the serial drivers registers its usb_driver last, which leaves a window for a bug: If a new dynamic-ID is added to the usb_serial driver before its usb_driver is registered (say by a udev script), it causes an oops. This doesn't seem to be a very serious problem; so far there has been only one complaint about it. For that reason, and because this is a somewhat lengthy set of changes, I'm not going to submit it for the stable kernels. I have been able to test this only with the pl2303 driver. All the other drivers are merely compile-tested. 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
