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.
next prev 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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