linux/include
Alan Stern 9da82bd464 USB: implement "soft" unbinding
This patch (as1091) changes the way usbcore handles interface
unbinding.  If the interface's driver supports "soft" unbinding (a new
flag in the driver structure) then in-flight URBs are not cancelled
and endpoints are not disabled.  Instead the driver is allowed to
continue communicating with the device (although of course it should
stop before its disconnect routine returns).

The purpose of this change is to allow drivers to do a clean shutdown
when they get unbound from a device that is still plugged in.  Killing
all the URBs and disabling the endpoints before calling the driver's
disconnect method doesn't give the driver any control over what
happens, and it can leave devices in indeterminate states.  For
example, when usb-storage unbinds it doesn't want to stop while in the
middle of transmitting a SCSI command.

The soft_unbind flag is added because in the past, a number of drivers
have experienced problems related to ongoing I/O after their disconnect
routine returned.  Hence "soft" unbinding is made available only to
drivers that claim to support it.

The patch also replaces "interface_to_usbdev(intf)" with "udev" in a
couple of places, a minor simplification.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 15:15:54 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
asm-alpha smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument 2008-06-26 11:24:35 +02:00
asm-arm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc 2008-07-16 15:17:52 -07:00
asm-avr32 termios: Termios defines for other platforms 2008-07-20 17:12:38 -07:00
asm-blackfin Blackfin Serial Driver: Use timer to poll CTS PIN instead of workqueue. 2008-06-19 17:46:39 +08:00
asm-cris [CRIS] Correct definition of subdirs for install_headers. 2008-06-30 22:51:16 +02:00
asm-frv termios: Termios defines for other platforms 2008-07-20 17:12:38 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
asm-h8300
asm-ia64 KVM: Add coalesced MMIO support (ia64 part) 2008-07-20 12:42:31 +03:00
asm-m32r m32r: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls 2008-06-26 11:22:57 +02:00
asm-m68k m68k: remove stale ARCH_SUN4 #define 2008-07-20 17:24:39 -07:00
asm-m68knommu
asm-mips [MIPS] Remove unused maltasmp.h. 2008-07-20 14:38:22 +01:00
asm-mn10300
asm-parisc parisc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls 2008-06-26 11:22:57 +02:00
asm-powerpc KVM: Add coalesced MMIO support (powerpc part) 2008-07-20 12:42:31 +03:00
asm-s390 KVM: s390: rename private structures 2008-07-20 12:42:37 +03:00
asm-sh sh: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls 2008-06-26 11:22:58 +02:00
asm-sparc sparc64: Add missing hypervisor service group numbers. 2008-07-18 00:43:52 -07:00
asm-sparc64 sparc: join the remaining header files 2008-07-17 21:55:51 -07:00
asm-um
asm-v850
asm-x86 Merge branch 'x86/paravirt-spinlocks' into x86/for-linus 2008-07-21 16:45:56 +02:00
asm-xtensa
crypto crypto: hash - Move ahash functions into crypto/hash.h 2008-07-10 20:35:18 +08:00
drm drm/radeon: fixup issue with radeon and PAT support. 2008-07-15 15:48:05 +10:00
keys
linux USB: implement "soft" unbinding 2008-07-21 15:15:54 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (8395): saa7134: Fix Kbuild dependency of ir-kbd-i2c 2008-07-20 07:29:03 -03:00
mtd
net netfilter: accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters (v4) 2008-07-21 10:10:58 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: (re)move {pcmcia,pccard}_get_status 2008-06-24 15:33:44 +02:00
rdma RDMA/addr: Keep pointer to netdevice in struct rdma_dev_addr 2008-07-14 23:48:53 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2008-07-15 18:58:04 -07:00
sound ALSA: Release v1.0.17 2008-07-14 09:54:43 +02:00
video
xen xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks 2008-07-16 11:15:53 +02:00
Kbuild drm: reorganise drm tree to be more future proof. 2008-07-14 10:45:01 +10:00