Re: [PATCH] fix usb skeleton driver

[Stefani Seibold]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 09:29 +0200 schrieb Oliver Neukum:
> Am Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2012, 09:00:36 schrieb stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> > From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This is a fix for the USB skeleton driver to bring it in shape.
> > 
> > - The usb_device structure pointer will no longer stored 
> > - Every access to the USB will be handled trought the usb_interface pointer
> > - No longer assign a NULL to usb_interface pointer in the disconnect() handler
> 
> Why? What is gained?
> 

All of this topics was suggested by Greg.

If a NULL is assigned to the usb_interface pointer, the skel_delete
cannot do an usb_put_dev() since the usb_device pointer is no longer
available.

Greetings

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