On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote: > I _really_ think we need to just get rid of that field and pass the > status in the urb callback. That would fix this problem once and for > all. > > But, from what I remember, the uhci host controller didn't make it easy > for me to acomplish this. Or it might have been another host > controller, can't remember anymore... > > So, anyone looking to make up some patches that touch every USB driver > in the tree? I'd be glad to take them :)
Tell you what -- I'll update the host controller drivers to remove them as an obstacle. However I don't currently feel up to modifying the signatures for all the USB completion routines in the kernel; someone else will have to do that. As a consolation prize, problems from abusing urb->status will decrease because the value won't change from -EINPROGRESS until immediately before the URB is passed to the completion handler. Of course this won't solve all the races, but it might help reduce the bug reports... Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
