Greg KH wrote: > Ok, given that this is due to really broken hardware, and the use case > is quite rare, and the patch doesn't really solve the problem, I'll > drop it from my queue.
No protest against dropping the patch - but just a note that in the libusb community we are really big fans of the way (some?) BSD systems allow both a kernel driver *and* userspace to open a device at the same time - doing locking when the interfaces is actually being used by someone. For USB storage this would mean that unless a filesystem has been mounted or dd is running on the block device, usbfs could claim the storage interface *while* the block device exists. It is understood that this may well require quite a bit of surgery in the kernel, but it's certainly a spiffy solution! //Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
