From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Hotplug Driver Interface to User Level Programs: Some Questions.
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:12:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408200812.03274.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412431DB.DCC65347@grave.users.botik.ru>
On Thursday 19 August 2004 8:32 am, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Alexander N. Kozhushkin wrote:
>
> > 3. The call completes without waiting for the device. The file
> > descriptor has been unusable for I/O operations on the device since
> > the disconnection, therefore the result of the call is not affected
> > if the device has been connected again. The result of the call
> > depends on the kind of the called function and other conditions.
> > However, the 'close' function closes the file, and there are system
> > calls which produce a specific error code in such situations.
>
> As I understand it, the kernel should always use your option 3.
Certainly USB should do it that way in 2.6, although the device
drivers can try to implement other behavior. I think that's made
a big improvement in robustness.
Other hotpluggable busses (or 2.4) may not act quite the same.
- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-19 4:51 Hotplug Driver Interface to User Level Programs: Some Questions Alexander N. Kozhushkin
2004-08-19 15:32 ` [linux-usb-devel] Hotplug Driver Interface to User Level Programs: Alan Stern
2004-08-20 15:12 ` David Brownell [this message]
2004-09-12 0:33 ` [linux-usb-devel] Hotplug Driver Interface to User Level Programs: A Alexander N. Kozhushkin
2004-09-12 0:56 ` [linux-usb-devel] Hotplug Driver Interface to User Level Programs: Alexander N. Kozhushkin
2004-09-13 19:27 ` [linux-usb-devel] Hotplug Driver Interface to User Level Programs: A Driver Example Linas Vepstas
2004-09-13 20:25 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-09-14 6:58 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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