Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb+sysfs: duplicate filename 'bInterfaceNumber'

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:48:52AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:04:43PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I haven't looked at this code at all, but neither approach feels right to
> > > > me.
> > > > 
> > > > How does this work at all?  Even if you load a driver later, wouldn't it
> > > > call usb_set_interface(), which would call usb_create_sysfs_intf_files()
> > > > and hit the same issue?
> > > 
> > > usb_set_interface() is smart enough to remove the old interface files
> > > before creating new ones, since it expects them to exist already.  
> > > Hence there's no problem in that scenario.
> > > 
> > > But usb_set_configuration doesn't expect there to be any pre-existing
> > > interface files, because there isn't even an interface until the
> > > registration is performed.
> > 
> > And I'm guessing that you can't call usb_create_sysfs_intf_files() until
> > registration is performed, right?
> 
> Right.
> 
> > > The most important reason has to do with the endpoint pseudo-devices.  
> > > Different altsettings can have different endpoints, so those have to be
> > > removed and re-created whenever the altsetting changes.
> > 
> > Right, altsettings.  I forgot about those.  I only ever think in terms of
> > multiple configurations.
> > 
> > *grumble*
> > 
> > If usb_set_interface() has to be smart enough to remove existing files
> > first already, then I guess it's reasonably symmetric to have
> > usb_set_configuration() have the same smarts.  Maybe they can share some
> > common code, even.
> 
> It's not a big deal to remove the files first.  In fact, here's a patch 
> to do it.  Dave, see if this doesn't fix your problem.  I don't like it 
> much because it does an unnecessary remove/create cycle, but that's 
> better than doing something wrong.
> 
> It's slightly odd that the sysfs core logs an error when you try to 
> create the same file twice but it doesn't when you try to remove a 
> non-existent file (or try to remove an existing file twice).  Oh 
> well...

I used to have the 'remove a non-existant file' warning, but that just
triggered _way_ too many responses :)


> Index: usb-2.6/drivers/usb/core/message.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/core/message.c
> +++ usb-2.6/drivers/usb/core/message.c
> @@ -1643,7 +1643,13 @@ free_interfaces:
>  				intf->dev.bus_id, ret);
>  			continue;
>  		}
> -		usb_create_sysfs_intf_files (intf);
> +
> +		/* The driver's probe method can call usb_set_interface(),
> +		 * which would mean the interface's sysfs files are already
> +		 * created.  Just in case, we'll remove them first.
> +		 */
> +		usb_remove_sysfs_intf_files(intf);
> +		usb_create_sysfs_intf_files(intf);
>  	}

If this fixes the problem, care to resend it with a signed-off-by:?

Yeah, it's not the nicest solution, but I can't think of any other one
either right now :(

thanks,

greg k-h