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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Instances of visor us devices are not deleted (2.6.9-rc4-mm1)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:56:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020235621.GC16737@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041020111800.GA6569@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Greg!
> 
> On Mit, 20 Okt 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hm, no it isn't.  Are you sure that userspace doesn't still have the
> > device nodes open?  If they do, the ttyUSB number will not be released
> > until that happens.
> 
> Ah, ok. So the culprit is gnome-pilot listening for HotSync events. 
> 
> I thought that as soon as the unit/usb device is disconnected, also the
> device numbers are released.

Nope, sorry.

> But then: How to cope with problems like this? REcurring plugging and
> unplugging and a program listening to this?

fix the userspace program :)

Good luck,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-21  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20  6:16 Norbert Preining
2004-10-20  7:00 ` Greg KH
2004-10-20 11:18   ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-20 23:56     ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-10-21 14:27 Kurt Wall

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