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
next prev parent 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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