Re: [Bisected] [Bug #13821] Replugging USB serial converter uses new device node

Alan Stern
2009-07-27T15:34:57Z

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:

> On Sun 26.Jul'09 at 22:28:27 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13821
> > Subject : Replugging USB serial converter uses new device node
> > Submitter : Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
> > Date : 2009-07-18 20:04 (9 days old)
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124794754015776&w=4
>
> I was scanning the regressions list and noticed that I could reproduce
> this bug.
>
> So I bisected it to commit 335f8514f200e63d689113d29cb7253a5c282967
> ("tty: Bring the usb tty port structure into more use"), from Alan
> Cox.
>
> I did not double check if reverting it from -rc4 fixes the issue,
> but I noticed that this patch touches drivers/usb/serial/option.c, which
> is the driver I used to test this problem.
>
> If there is anything else I can do (give more info, test patches etc),
> please let me know.

Are you certain this really is a regression? Under 2.6.30 and 2.6.27
the same thing happened if I unplugged a USB serial device while it was
in use.

Can you check whether the device is still being used when you unplug
it? For instance, is there still a pppd process trying to communicate
with the device? If there is, what happens if you kill all the
processes using the serial device before you unplug it?

In short, it seems likely that this is not new behavior but rather the
way usb-serial has worked all along.

Alan Stern