Re: [linux-usb-devel] [patch, attach, RFC] usb-serial: ti_usb removing firmware
Quoting Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>:
> > Mister Greg, how to change configuration _inside_ the driver? Device
> > was made to be
> > working on second usb config after one reconnect/device change, i've
> > lost whole day
> > trying to make something with that. After all, usb_set_configuration()
> > isn't even
> > EXPORT()ED at all !
The current driver depends on a hot plug script to change configurations.
See the comments at the top of the file. That is not an ideal situation
at all. If 2.6.19 again has a way for the driver to change its configuration
that would be great.
-- Al
>
> It isn't exported because, generally speaking, drivers can't use it. If
> your driver called usb_set_configuration() from within its probe routine,
> it would hang. That's because usb_set_configuration would unregister the
> interface being probed by your driver, so it would try to call your
> driver's disconnect routine, but first it would have to wait for the probe
> to finish -- deadlock.
>
> There is an exported routine drivers can use in the rare cases where they
> do need to change configurations. It's called
> usb_driver_set_configuration(), and it is present in 2.6.19.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
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