Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [HID] Fix hiddev devfs oops

[Adam Kropelin]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:23:43PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > Herbert, I'm sorry for the wait. Marcelo asked me to take care of
> > this, but I kept postponing it because I wanted to look closer, and
> > this and that... It looks entirely reasonable and my hid devices
> > continue to work, but I haven't tested hiddev (UPS or something ?).
>
> Yes that's exactly the situation I'm in (APC UPS via USB) and it does
> fix the OOPS for me when hid is unloaded with the UPS connected.

Another scenario to keep in mind is unplugging a USB device while a process 
still has its corresponding hiddev node open. I fixed that issue in 2.6 a 
while ago. I'm not sure if 2.4 is susceptible. It may or may not be 
orthogonal to the problem your patch addresses.

--Adam

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