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Commit 6eecdc5f authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by David S. Miller
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usbnet: allow status interrupt URB to always be active



Some drivers (sierra_net) need the status interrupt URB
active even when the device is closed, because they receive
custom indications from firmware.  Add functions to refcount
the status interrupt URB submit/kill operation so that
sub-drivers and the generic driver don't fight over whether
the status interrupt URB is active or not.

A sub-driver can call usbnet_status_start() at any time, but
the URB is only submitted the first time the function is
called.  Likewise, when the sub-driver is done with the URB,
it calls usbnet_status_stop() but the URB is only killed when
all users have stopped it.  The URB is still killed and
re-submitted for suspend/resume, as before, with the same
refcount it had at suspend.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7fdb7846
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