Greg KH wrote: > > allow both a kernel driver *and* userspace to open a device > > at the same time - doing locking when the interfaces is actually > > being used by someone. > > > > For USB storage this would mean that unless a filesystem has been > > mounted or dd is running on the block device, usbfs could claim the > > storage interface *while* the block device exists. > > It's also ripe for problems and data loss, Hm? How so? Note "actually being used" - as soon as the block device is in use, of course noone else can go claim that interface. //Peter -- 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
