linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] USB: storage: Notify the subdrivers that they need to reinitialize the device.

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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:03:53 +0300
From:   Mikhail Zaytsev <flashed@...l.ru>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        <usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] USB: storage: Notify the subdrivers that they need
 to reinitialize the device.

On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Mikhail Zaytsev wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds the device_reinit function into the us_data
> > structure. The usb-storage driver uses this function for notify the
> > subdrivers that they need to reinitialize the device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaytsev <flashed@...l.ru>  
> 
> I'd feel more inclined to accept this patch if the new code got used 
> somewhere.  As it is, it fixes a "problem" that doesn't actually have 
> any real effect.
> 
> Alan Stern

I propose to delete this FIXME comments without any code changes.

Regards, Mikhail