Re: Bug creating USB endpoints in 2.6.20.x (kernel bug 8198)

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Chris Rankin wrote:

> --- Tejun Heo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I see.  They're static alright.  That leaves us with sd pointing to
> > the wrong attr.  I'll take a look whether that's possible.
> 
> I put a few printks in sysfs_remove_file() to see precisely what winecfg is doing, and it looks as
> if the ALSA OSS emulation layer is repeatedly choosing which interface it should be using for the
> webcam's microphone device:

There's nothing wrong with that.  A driver is allowed to change its
interface's altsetting (i.e., call usb_set_interface()) whenever it wants
to.  There isn't even a locking requirement.

> So does this imply there's a race condition in here somewhere?

There may indeed be a race condition somewhere, but so far you haven't
proved there is or pinned down exactly where.

Alan Stern


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