USB: documentation update for the pre_reset method
This patch (as1459) updates the documentation for the pre_reset method
in struct usb_driver. When a driver is notified of an impending
reset, it must cancel all outstanding I/O and not start any new I/O
until it has been notified that the reset is complete.
As far as I know, most existing drivers that implement pre_reset do
this now. The major exceptions appear to be the SpeedTouch and
CDC-WDM drivers.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/callbacks.txt b/Documentation/usb/callbacks.txt
index bfb36b3..9e85846 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/callbacks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/callbacks.txt
@@ -95,9 +95,11 @@
int (*pre_reset)(struct usb_interface *intf);
-Another driver or user space is triggering a reset on the device which
-contains the interface passed as an argument. Cease IO and save any
-device state you need to restore.
+A driver or user space is triggering a reset on the device which
+contains the interface passed as an argument. Cease IO, wait for all
+outstanding URBs to complete, and save any device state you need to
+restore. No more URBs may be submitted until the post_reset method
+is called.
If you need to allocate memory here, use GFP_NOIO or GFP_ATOMIC, if you
are in atomic context.