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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	"E. Oltmanns" <oltmanns@uni-bonn.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:06:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404271306.52543.baldrick@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040426223101.GA9258@kroah.com>

> Heh.  So the correct answer is:
> 	- don't do that.  Talking to the same device through usbfs at
> 	  the same time by multiple programs is cause for lots of bad
> 	  things to happen to your device, and might possibly cause it
> 	  to hang.  If you want to allow a user to access a device
> 	  through usbfs, make sure you trust them.

If usbfs fails to work when a device is accessed by multiple programs
then that is a bug in usbfs and should be fixed.  Hopefully it's already
fixed.

All the best,

Duncan.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-27 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23 20:56 Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5) E. Oltmanns
2004-04-24  0:30 ` Greg KH
2004-04-26 17:06   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-26 19:53     ` Greg KH
2004-04-26 22:17       ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-26 22:31         ` Greg KH
2004-04-27  9:04           ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-27 11:06           ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2004-04-26 22:53         ` E. Oltmanns

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