Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 2/5] uas: MS UAS Gadget driver - Infrastructure

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 17:16:10 EST


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:06:25PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> > One can always unbind usb-storage from an interface and bind uas to
> > that interface by hand, using sysfs. At the moment there doesn't
> > appear to be any mechanism for doing this automatically. For example,
> > usb-storage _could_ choose not to bind to an interface if there's a UAS
> > altsetting -- but currently it doesn't take that into account.
>
> How would the usb-storage driver reject a bind by the USB core? By
> returning an error from the probe function?

Yes.

> Would the USB core go and search for the next driver after the BOT
> driver rejected the bind?

Yes.

> It looks like usb_probe_interface will just return an error if the
> first driver's probe function fails.

The driver core continues on and will probe the remaining drivers for
that bus. Also, when a new driver shows up, the driver core asks if any
of the unbound devices should be bound to this new driver.

So you should be fine.

thanks,

greg k-h
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