Re: [PATCH] hid: usbhid: fix possible deadlock in __usbhid_submit_report

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> As I said, I'd very much appreciate sane semantics for usb_unlink_urb().

Aside from the practicality issue of altering a large number of
existing drivers, changing the semantics the way you want would be
difficult because it would force the HCDs to defer some giveback
operations to a bottom half or timer routine.

Think about what happens if the URB being unlinked hasn't been
presented to the hardware yet.  Once it has been removed from the HCD's
internal lists, there's no reason not to give it back right away.  And
there's no natural time to give it back later.

Alan Stern

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