udlfb: remove sysfs framebuffer device with USB .disconnect()
authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:57:46 +0000 (19:57 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:27:11 +0000 (09:27 -0700)
commit6ee80c0330b0413b9daa9e2aa9142554de290bdc
tree17f510056dd83c1026de2c50494f34693e180fb7
parentbbcf567a1c0237990feec5dfe1787dc014215740
udlfb: remove sysfs framebuffer device with USB .disconnect()

commit ce880cb860f36694d2cdebfac9e6ae18176fe4c4 upstream.

The USB graphics card driver delays the unregistering of the framebuffer
device to a workqueue, which breaks the userspace visible remove uevent
sequence. Recent userspace tools started to support USB graphics card
hotplug out-of-the-box and rely on proper events sent by the kernel.

The framebuffer device is a direct child of the USB interface which is
removed immediately after the USB .disconnect() callback. But the fb device
in /sys stays around until its final cleanup, at a time where all the parent
devices have been removed already.

To work around that, we remove the sysfs fb device directly in the USB
.disconnect() callback and leave only the cleanup of the internal fb
data to the delayed work.

Before:
 add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 (usb)
 add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0 (usb)
 add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/graphics/fb0 (graphics)
 remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0 (usb)
 remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 (usb)
 remove   /2-1.2:1.0/graphics/fb0 (graphics)

After:
 add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 (usb)
 add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0 (usb)
 add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/graphics/fb1 (graphics)
 remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/graphics/fb1 (graphics)
 remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0 (usb)
 remove   /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 (usb)

Tested-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Acked-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/video/fbmem.c
drivers/video/udlfb.c
include/linux/fb.h