Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers

From	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers
Date	2015-11-30 10:20 +0100
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On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 18:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Yes, it's tough, I know, good luck.
> 
> Also deal with multiple devices, busses that are ordered differently
> depending on the phase of the moon, and other fun things with dynamic
> devices and ioctls.  It's a loosing battle :)

IMHO the fundamental problem is using one device node per device.
And I think it should be tackled. Yet I have no idea how to do
this in a compatible manner.

	Regards
		Oliver


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[PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Emilio López <emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 16:50 +0100
  [PATCH v1] usb: devio: Add ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers. Emilio López <emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1] usb: devio: Add ioctl to disallow detaching kernel  USB drivers. Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-11-26 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com> - 2015-11-26 10:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-11-26 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com> - 2015-11-27 09:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-11-28 03:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2015-11-30 10:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2015-11-30 17:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com> - 2015-11-30 18:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-11-30 18:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com> - 2015-11-30 19:50 +0100

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