Thanks for your comments :) Harvey On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, harvey yang wrote: > >> Hi, all >> I checked many usb drivers in the mainline kernel which do not record >> this reference in their probe methods. But according to the documents >> about this function, we shoud record this reference in our probe >> methods, just as the call to 'usb_get_dev()' to reference a usb >> device. Are these usb drivers right or we need to fix them? > > The drivers are right; they do not need to be fixed. The reason is > because the drivers will be unbound automatically when the device or > interface is unregistered. > > The only reason for a driver to take a reference would be if it wanted > to continue using the device after it was unbound. But drivers aren't > supposed to do that. > > 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
