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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] USB: Fix device driver race
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:38:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803153804.GA1172014@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64c8caa8ee054ed9106683f15238b2be74f77aa2.camel@hadess.net>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 05:04:46PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 12:46 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > When a new device with a specialised device driver is plugged in, the
> > new driver will be modprobe()'d but the driver core will attach the
> > "generic" driver to the device.
> > 
> > After that, nothing will trigger a reprobe when the modprobe()'d
> > device
> > driver has finished initialising, as the device has the "generic"
> > driver attached to it.
> > 
> > Trigger a reprobe ourselves when new specialised drivers get
> > registered.
> > 
> > Fixes: 88b7381a939d ("USB: Select better matching USB drivers when
> > available")
> > Signed-off-by: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
> 
> Greg, Alan, are you happy with this iteration?
> 
> If so, I can send it again with Alan's acks, along with a fix for the
> function name Alan mentioned. I see that the first patch in the list
> landed in usb-next already.
> 

Yes, please resend the remaining patches.  I don't recall seeing Alan's
ack on it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27 10:46 [PATCH v6 1/3] USB: Simplify USB ID table match Bastien Nocera
2020-07-27 10:46 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] USB: Also check for ->match Bastien Nocera
2020-07-27 10:46 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] USB: Fix device driver race Bastien Nocera
2020-08-03 15:04   ` Bastien Nocera
2020-08-03 15:38     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-08-04 11:41       ` Bastien Nocera
2020-08-04 11:56         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-03 16:02     ` Alan Stern

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