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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:53:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:45:58PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> >
> >> Wait a second.  Why does isight_firmware bind at this time?  Binding to
> >> new devices is handled by khubd, which doesn't start running again
> >> until after the resume is finished (the device appears to be new
> >> because its descriptors have changed).  At that point there should be
> >> no trouble reloading the firmware.
> >
> > Then why are we getting this warning? The firmware is only loaded in the
> > probe function.
> 
> The USB suspend/resume function does that "unbind/rebind" dance, and
> that causes a "device_attach()". Which causes a probe() to be called.
> 
> Should it do that? I think not, not if the ID's haven't changed. But I
> don't know the USB layer all that well.

The IDs will have changed due to the firmware falling out.

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