Re: USB: serial: ch341: remove reset_resume callback

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On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 10:39:32PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > > It looks like you're replacing a reset_resume method with a regular 
> > > resume method.  Is that really the right thing to do?
> > 
> > As only 2 usb-serial drivers have ever implemented reset_resume, and
> > they both did the same exact thing that their resume functions did, I
> > think it is safe as resume will be called if reset_resume is not set,
> > right?
> 
> Actually no.  If the device is going through a reset-resume and a 
> driver's reset_resume method pointer isn't set, the driver will be 
> unbound and then later rebound.  It's not a matter of just calling the 
> resume method instead.
> 
> Although maybe for serial devices it doesn't make much difference.

Maybe for the sierra device it might matter.  So, should we just have a
reset_resume callback in the usbserial driver structure?  If that is
set, then we can set the usb_driver field as well, which should keep
things working properly I think.

greg k-h
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