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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, Hongyu Xie <xy521521@gmail.com>
Cc: oneukum@suse.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, brauner@kernel.org,
	jlayton@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xiehongyu1@kylinos.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] usb: usbfs: Add reset_resume for usbfs
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:27:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd3583a1-e66d-46e5-aba8-61ffb268f9a7@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5413aa3b-92ba-4367-b720-2fa4161638b5@rowland.harvard.edu>

On 17.07.24 15:44, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:13:39AM +0800, Hongyu Xie wrote:
>> From: Hongyu Xie <xiehongyu1@kylinos.cn>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2024/7/17 10:05, Alan Stern wrote:

> 
> That's right, it should be possible to avoid rebinding.  But we can't do
> this until we have some way to tell the userspace driver that a reset
> has occurred.  Oliver's idea is to do this by returning a special error
> code for the next ioctl, and I can't think of anything better.

I wish you could, for this is supremely inelegant. In particular
it forces user space to reinit the device when it is needed, instead
of when it is idle.

Yet, I think conceptually the first ioctl absolutely must fail,
because the device state has been lost.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-17 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-11  8:43 Hongyu Xie
2024-07-11  8:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2024-07-11 14:41   ` Alan Stern
2024-07-15  8:53     ` Oliver Neukum
2024-07-15 14:22       ` Alan Stern
2024-07-16 12:44         ` Oliver Neukum
2024-07-17  1:43           ` Hongyu Xie
2024-07-17  2:05             ` Alan Stern
2024-07-17  3:13               ` Hongyu Xie
2024-07-17  7:52                 ` Oliver Neukum
2024-07-17 13:44                 ` Alan Stern
2024-07-17 15:27                   ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2024-07-17  7:42             ` Oliver Neukum
2024-07-18  3:23               ` Hongyu Xie
2024-07-12  3:10   ` Hongyu Xie
2024-07-13  2:22     ` Alan Stern
2024-07-15  1:13       ` Hongyu Xie
2024-07-15  8:40         ` Oliver Neukum

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