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Message-ID: <2023052600-survey-fondness-27ce@gregkh>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2023 08:42:07 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Roy Luo <royluo@...gle.com>
Cc:     raychi@...gle.com, badhri@...gle.com,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@...gutronix.de>,
        Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@...m.it>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] usb: core: add sysfs entry for usb device state

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 05:38:18PM +0000, Roy Luo wrote:
> + * @work: workqueue for sysfs_notify()

Do you really need this?  This should be possible to call in any context
as kernfs_notify() says that it is safe to do that, right?

Also, what userspace code is now calling poll() on your new sysfs file?

thanks,

greg k-h

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