Re: [PARPORT] user-space drivers


Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:43:42 +0100 (GMT)


On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Why won't that work? (I don't know _anything_ about USB..)
>
> because if they bang on the hardware it wont be there 8) At least not in the
> form they expect.

Ah. Another thing I still haven't worked out is how to cope with the
device getting pulled out. We have a detach() call in the high-level
driver, at least if it used register_driver, but I can't see an easy way
of making it race-free, given that the thing can disappear at any time.

Tim.
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