Hi, On 05/23/2012 12:00 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Hans de Goede wrote:Well then lets work towards making it guaranteed, since I still believe the following holds true: 1) drvdata is for a driver to store a pointer to driver specific data 2) If no driver is bound, there is no driver specific data associated with the device 3) Thus logically drvdata should be NULL if no driver is bound. I'll do a patch for the USB-core to ensure that intfdata gets set to NULL on probe failure.Hans, I believe this is a good thing per se, but shouldn't this rather be done in driver core, to guarantee that this hold across all buses?
Alan Stern said exactly the same thing :) And I've just finished a patch doing exactly that. I'll send it to the list right after this email. Regards, Hans -- 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
