Re: [PATCH] Missing usb_find_device symbol from usb.c

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:19:25PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Wilco,
> 
> On Jan 24, 2008 12:05 PM, Wilco Beekhuizen <wilcobeekhuizen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Most code is pretty ancient, I just manage it so it compiles with
> > recent kernels. Is there somehting exported that is similar to
> > usb_find_device?
> 
> The problem is that iriverfs shouldn't be calling usb_find_device() at
> all. What happens when you plug in two players to the same computer?
> AFAICT the whole thing should be a proper USB driver in drivers/usb/
> and not a "filesystem" in fs/.

No, that's not the problem.  The code should just be using
usb_register_driver() and then doing what it needs to do in the probe()
callback, like any other USB driver.

By calling usb_find_device() it allows more than one driver to talk to
the device at the same time, setting it up for some very bad things to
possibly happen to the device.

So a simple code change should be all that is needed to properly fix
this.

If you want, I can make up a patch, just point me at the version you
wish me to modify.

thanks,

greg k-h