[PATCH] USB: Mark devices as NOTATTACHED as soon as possible
This patch implements something we've been lacking for a long time: a way to mark devices as USB_STATE_NOTATTACHED as soon as we know that they're gone. The usb_device->state member is no longer protected by the ->serialize semaphore; instead there's a new private spinlock. Usbcore routines should no longer set ->state directly; instead they should use the new utility routine usb_set_device_state(). There are protections against changing states while devices are being added or removed. Change assignments to udev->state into calls of usb_set_device_state(). Add new private device_state_lock to the hub driver, along with usb_set_device_state() and recursively_mark_NOTATTACHED(). Acquire the new spinlock while adding or removing children[] pointers. When disabling a port that has a child device, mark the child as NOTATTACHED. You mentioned once having tried to do something like this and running into trouble. Take a good look and let me know if you see any difficulties here. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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