Re: [RFC] net: usbnet: add pre and post_reset support

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Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thursday 11 October 2012 11:05:05 Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> So I guess that demonstrates the issue with pre and post_reset on
>> devices keeping internal state pretty well: The effect is entirely
>> device dependent. The device reset behaviour is not known, and we risk
>> that the device changes some of its internal variables on reset.  So
>> adding reset support to class minidrivers is risky.  Although my
>> rndis_host test worked, there is no guarantee that other rndis devices
>> will work the same way.
>
> On second thought we'd better tell user space that a reset has happened.
> Any ideas on how?

No, not really. I guess we need to trigger a rtnetlink message of some
sort?  Flash the carrier status maybe?  But I don't know how to do that
in a generic way.


Bjørn
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