Re: the usb persist feature

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 20:15 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > > On the contrary. This propblem usually occurs during probe() where it is
> > > handled exactly this way. You return an error.
> > 
> > The situations aren't parallel.  During probe() the driver is supposed to 
> > test the device to make sure it really can manage it.  Hence it makes 
> > sense to return an error.  But post_reset() informs the driver that the 
> > device has finished being reset.  The driver isn't asked to do anything, 
> > so it shouldn't return anything.
> 
> Ehm, how do you suppose any serial adaptor to handle this without
> restoring, eg. baud rate, or the network adapters without restoring IP,
> etc... ?

By keeping track of those values in their private data structures.

Maybe they don't bother to do so; I'm not familiar with those drivers.  So 
all right, I'll write the routine for you.

Alan Stern


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