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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] usb_serial: Kill port mutex
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:56:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910072256.21316.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0910071434290.3051-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 20:52:21 schrieb Alan Stern:
> However in the option and sierra drivers there is a perverse path from
> close to resume: Both their close methods call
> usb_autopm_get_interface().  This could be removed without much
> trouble; perhaps we should do so.

I am afraid this won't do in the long run. Some drivers will want to
shut down devices by communicating with them in close().

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 15:05 [PATCH 0/5] tty_port_open Alan Cox
2009-10-06 15:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] tty_port: add "tty_port_open" helper Alan Cox
2009-10-06 15:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] tty_port: coding style cleaning pass Alan Cox
2009-10-06 15:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] usb_serial: Use the shutdown() operation Alan Cox
2009-10-06 15:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] usb_serial: Kill port mutex Alan Cox
2009-10-07  5:02   ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-07 16:03     ` Alan Stern
2009-10-07 16:10       ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-07 16:34         ` Alan Stern
2009-10-07 16:46       ` Alan Cox
2009-10-07 17:23         ` Alan Stern
2009-10-07 18:25           ` Alan Cox
2009-10-07 18:52             ` Alan Stern
2009-10-07 20:56               ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2009-10-07 21:02                 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-07 21:34                   ` Alan Stern
2009-10-08 13:43                     ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-08 14:58                       ` Alan Stern
2009-10-08 15:27                         ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-08 16:58                           ` Alan Stern
2009-10-08 20:06                             ` Alan Stern
2009-10-08 20:40                               ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-08 21:19                                 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-08 21:31                                 ` Alan Stern
2009-10-08 22:31                                   ` Alan Cox
2009-10-08 11:37           ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-06 15:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] opticon: Fix resume logic Alan Cox
2009-10-06 21:12   ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-06 22:23     ` Alan Cox
2009-10-07 15:56       ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-07 16:01         ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-07 15:56       ` Alan Stern

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