Re: [PATCH v4] media: ucvideo: Add quirk for Logitech Rally Bar

[Oliver Neukum]

On 04.02.24 11:52, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> Thank you for the patch.

Hi,

sorry for commenting on this late, but this patch has
a fundamental issue. In fact this issue is the reason the
handling for quirks is in usbcore at all.

If you leave the setting/clearing of this flag to a driver you
are introducing a race condition. The driver may or may not be
present at the time a device is enumerated. And you have
no idea how long the autosuspend delay is on a system
and what its default policy is regarding suspending
devices.
That means that a device can have been suspended and
resumed before it is probed. On a device that needs
RESET_RESUME, we are in trouble.
The inverse issue will arise if a device does not react
well to RESET_RESUME. You cannot rule out that a device
that must not be reset will be reset.

I am sorry, but it seems to me that the exceptions need
to go into usbcore.

	Regards
		Oliver