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

Matthew Dharm
2003-02-27T19:32:39Z

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This was discussed, but I didn't recall a firm decision.

I'll keep my eyes open for the patch that uses release().

Matt

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:37:37PM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote:
> 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
> --
> Michael Anderson
> andmike@us.ibm.com
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>
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