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authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>2007-01-11 14:35:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-02-07 15:44:38 -0800
commit3ede760f0e46317c6716ead8facff88f6a924a49 (patch)
tree077a0ab25a4b4e63aa6547e6f352ea063d7b678a /drivers/usb/core
parent66e56ce75e39210415fb12ceacd5f3580ad72d50 (diff)
USB: total removal of multithreaded probing in usb
The whole approach is simply wrong. Forking a thread means that - errors are ignored - locking is ignored Doing this correctly would require major surgery for questionable benefit. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/hub.c64
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 1988224b362..590ec82d051 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(khubd_wait);
static struct task_struct *khubd_task;
-/* multithreaded probe logic */
-static int multithread_probe = 0;
-
/* cycle leds on hubs that aren't blinking for attention */
static int blinkenlights = 0;
module_param (blinkenlights, bool, S_IRUGO);
@@ -1256,9 +1253,28 @@ static inline void show_string(struct usb_device *udev, char *id, char *string)
static int __usb_port_suspend(struct usb_device *, int port1);
#endif
-static int __usb_new_device(void *void_data)
+/**
+ * usb_new_device - perform initial device setup (usbcore-internal)
+ * @udev: newly addressed device (in ADDRESS state)
+ *
+ * This is called with devices which have been enumerated, but not yet
+ * configured. The device descriptor is available, but not descriptors
+ * for any device configuration. The caller must have locked either
+ * the parent hub (if udev is a normal device) or else the
+ * usb_bus_list_lock (if udev is a root hub). The parent's pointer to
+ * udev has already been installed, but udev is not yet visible through
+ * sysfs or other filesystem code.
+ *
+ * It will return if the device is configured properly or not. Zero if
+ * the interface was registered with the driver core; else a negative
+ * errno value.
+ *
+ * This call is synchronous, and may not be used in an interrupt context.
+ *
+ * Only the hub driver or root-hub registrar should ever call this.
+ */
+int usb_new_device(struct usb_device *udev)
{
- struct usb_device *udev = void_data;
int err;
/* Lock ourself into memory in order to keep a probe sequence
@@ -1375,44 +1391,6 @@ fail:
goto exit;
}
-/**
- * usb_new_device - perform initial device setup (usbcore-internal)
- * @udev: newly addressed device (in ADDRESS state)
- *
- * This is called with devices which have been enumerated, but not yet
- * configured. The device descriptor is available, but not descriptors
- * for any device configuration. The caller must have locked either
- * the parent hub (if udev is a normal device) or else the
- * usb_bus_list_lock (if udev is a root hub). The parent's pointer to
- * udev has already been installed, but udev is not yet visible through
- * sysfs or other filesystem code.
- *
- * The return value for this function depends on if the
- * multithread_probe variable is set or not. If it's set, it will
- * return a if the probe thread was successfully created or not. If the
- * variable is not set, it will return if the device is configured
- * properly or not. interfaces, in sysfs); else a negative errno value.
- *
- * This call is synchronous, and may not be used in an interrupt context.
- *
- * Only the hub driver or root-hub registrar should ever call this.
- */
-int usb_new_device(struct usb_device *udev)
-{
- struct task_struct *probe_task;
- int ret = 0;
-
- if (multithread_probe) {
- probe_task = kthread_run(__usb_new_device, udev,
- "usb-probe-%s", udev->devnum);
- if (IS_ERR(probe_task))
- ret = PTR_ERR(probe_task);
- } else
- ret = __usb_new_device(udev);
-
- return ret;
-}
-
static int hub_port_status(struct usb_hub *hub, int port1,
u16 *status, u16 *change)
{