Re: Instances of visor us devices are not deleted (2.6.9-rc4-mm1)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Greg!
> 
> On Mit, 20 Okt 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hm, no it isn't.  Are you sure that userspace doesn't still have the
> > device nodes open?  If they do, the ttyUSB number will not be released
> > until that happens.
> 
> Ah, ok. So the culprit is gnome-pilot listening for HotSync events. 
> 
> I thought that as soon as the unit/usb device is disconnected, also the
> device numbers are released.

Nope, sorry.

> But then: How to cope with problems like this? REcurring plugging and
> unplugging and a program listening to this?

fix the userspace program :)

Good luck,

greg k-h
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