Re: [PATCH] usb: storage: Add ums-cros-aoa driver

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 05:19:59 EST


On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 10:46:14AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Montag, den 02.09.2019, 18:47 +0200 schrieb Greg KH:
> >
> > This should work just fine today. Add a new device id to the "new_id"
> > file and then tell the driver to bind. That's pretty much the same as a
> > "force_bind", right?
>
> That looks like a race condition by design to me.

How?

Anyway, this should all "just work" somehow, there's an old lwn.net
article I wrote about this over a decade ago when it was added. A
number of subsystems use this all the time (vfio?) and I haven't heard
any issues with it in a long time.

thanks,

greg k-h