Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:56:21 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Instances of visor us devices are not deleted (2.6.9-rc4-mm1) |
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Greg! > > On Mit, 20 Okt 2004, Greg KH wrote: > > Hm, no it isn't. Are you sure that userspace doesn't still have the > > device nodes open? If they do, the ttyUSB number will not be released > > until that happens. > > Ah, ok. So the culprit is gnome-pilot listening for HotSync events. > > I thought that as soon as the unit/usb device is disconnected, also the > device numbers are released.
Nope, sorry.
> But then: How to cope with problems like this? REcurring plugging and > unplugging and a program listening to this?
fix the userspace program :)
Good luck,
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