Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BUG] oops while completing async USB via usbdevio

[Harald Welte]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:24:25PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > Ok, I'll get something coded shortly.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this approach is not feasible, since there is no 'reverse
> > mapping' from a file to a process.  So for every URB delivery, we would
> > have to walk that task_list and check which tasks have opened this file.
> 
> What about something like the standard FSETOWN fnctl?

I investigated this option, too. The magic behind FSETOWN doesn't allow
us to pass the URB address back to the process (together with the
signal).

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