Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.58

Mike Anderson
2003-02-27T06:37:37Z

Matthew Dharm [mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net] wrote:
> Right... but I removed the release() function because that was marked (in
> the documentation) as only for the old-style drivers. So I'll need to
> re-introduce it -- but it looks like all it has to do is free some memory.
> Does that sound about right?

Yes it was previously removed, but IIRC this is the direction
discussed on this thread. For a idle device the release functionality could
be done in the context of the scsi_remove_host call, but for a busy
device we need to have this call to clean up later.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
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