linux/drivers/usb/core
Hans de Goede 0837e7e527 usbfs: Add a new disconnect-and-claim ioctl (v2)
Apps which deal with devices which also have a kernel driver, need to do
the following:
1) Check which driver is attached, so as to not detach the wrong driver
   (ie detaching usbfs while another instance of the app is using the device)
2) Detach the kernel driver
3) Claim the interface

Where moving from one step to the next for both 1-2 and 2-3 consists of
a (small) race window. So currently such apps are racy and people just live
with it.

This patch adds a new ioctl which makes it possible for apps to do this
in a race free manner. For flexibility apps can choose to:
1) Specify the driver to disconnect
2) Specify to disconnect any driver except for the one named by the app
3) Disconnect any driver

Note that if there is no driver attached, the ioctl will just act like the
regular claim-interface ioctl, this is by design, as returning an error for
this condition would open a new bag of race-conditions.

Changes in v2:
-Fix indentation of if blocks where the condition spans multiple lines

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-10 11:10:37 -07:00
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buffer.c USB: Core: Fix minor coding style issues 2011-01-22 19:35:39 -08:00
config.c usbcore: get BOS descriptor set 2011-09-26 15:51:08 -07:00
devices.c Revert "usb: move struct usb_device->children to struct usb_hub_port->child" 2012-05-14 09:20:37 -07:00
devio.c usbfs: Add a new disconnect-and-claim ioctl (v2) 2012-09-10 11:10:37 -07:00
driver.c usb: Add quirk detection based on interface information 2012-07-19 15:44:58 -07:00
endpoint.c usb/endpoint: Set release callback in the struct device_type instead of in the device itself directly 2012-08-20 14:38:08 -07:00
file.c USB: rename the usb misc class from "usb" to "usbmisc" 2012-06-13 15:37:13 -07:00
generic.c USB: accept RNDIS configs if there's no alternative 2010-08-10 14:35:43 -07:00
hcd-pci.c USB: add NO_D3_DURING_SLEEP flag and revert 151b612847 2012-06-13 13:11:39 -07:00
hcd.c usb/hcd: Ensure scatter-gather is not used for isoc transfers 2012-07-09 09:46:50 -07:00
hub.c This patch series contains a major revamp of how we collect entropy 2012-07-31 19:07:42 -07:00
Kconfig usb: Kconfig: remove unneeded default value 2012-05-14 08:49:50 -07:00
Makefile usb: Bind devices to ACPI devices when possible 2012-05-11 17:06:13 -07:00
message.c USB: Enable Latency Tolerance Messaging (LTM). 2012-07-11 07:06:48 -04:00
notify.c usb: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE where needed 2011-10-31 19:31:25 -04:00
otg_whitelist.h USB: fix codingstyle issues in drivers/usb/core/*.h 2008-02-01 14:35:07 -08:00
quirks.c usb: convert USB_QUIRK_RESET_MORPHS to USB_QUIRK_RESET 2012-08-20 14:38:08 -07:00
sysfs.c usb: convert USB_QUIRK_RESET_MORPHS to USB_QUIRK_RESET 2012-08-20 14:38:08 -07:00
urb.c usbhid: prevent deadlock during timeout 2012-05-01 13:22:13 -04:00
usb-acpi.c usb: Set device removable state based on ACPI USB data 2012-05-11 17:07:02 -07:00
usb.c USB: Disable LPM while the device is unconfigured. 2012-07-11 07:06:46 -04:00
usb.h usb: Add quirk detection based on interface information 2012-07-19 15:44:58 -07:00