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Message-ID: <20190903124527.GB493@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Sep 2019 14:45:27 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc:     Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        USB Storage list <usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net>,
        Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: storage: Add ums-cros-aoa driver

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:04:03PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 03.09.2019, 11:19 +0200 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 10:46:14AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Am Montag, den 02.09.2019, 18:47 +0200 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > > 
> > > > This should work just fine today.  Add a new device id to the "new_id"
> > > > file and then tell the driver to bind.  That's pretty much the same as a
> > > > "force_bind", right?
> > > 
> > > That looks like a race condition by design to me.
> > 
> > How?
> 
> You have one of these files and potentially multiple devices
> to be bound. You need a locking scheme. As soon as the acts
> of specifying and binding are distinct.

What needs to be locked here?

totally confused,

greg k-h

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