Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Fri, 22 May 2009 20:24:15 +0200 | Subject | Re: How to tell whether a struct file is held by a process? |
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:54, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> Would releasing the "lock" trigger a kernel-driver-binding call? > > No. If the lock owner wants to bind kernel drivers, it can use the > existing API in libusb after releasing the lock. This 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. So for example, > a hub device with four ports might contain inside its sysfs device > directory: ports/1, ..., ports/4.
Sounds both good to me.
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