Re: How to tell whether a struct file is held by a process?

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:54, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Would releasing the "lock" trigger a kernel-driver-binding call?
>
> No. ÂIf the lock owner wants to bind kernel drivers, it can use the
> existing API in libusb after releasing the lock. ÂThis might cause
> problems if the owning process terminates abnormally, but I think we
> can live with that.
>
>> The lock will always lock all devices of a specific hub?
>
> The idea is that there will be one lock file per port. ÂSo for example,
> a hub device with four ports might contain inside its sysfs device
> directory: ports/1, ..., ports/4.

Sounds both good to me.

Kay
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