On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:37:30PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 12:19 pm, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > struct urb {
> > 	/* private, usb core and host controller only fields in the urb */
> > 	...
> > 	struct list_head urb_list;	/* list pointer to all active urbs */
> > 	...
> > };
> >
> > Is it safe to use it for driver's purposes when the driver owns the urb,
> > that is, starting from the completion routine until the urb is submitted
> > with usb_submit_urb()?
>
> Right now, it should be.

Great!  FWIW I've briefly tested a modified version of usbatm using
the list head in struct urb instead of creating a wrapper struct, and I
haven't seen any failures yet.  So I tend to believe that your "should
be" actually means "is" :)

> > If it is, can it be guaranteed in future, e.g.
> > by moving the list head into the public section of struct urb?
>
> In fact I'm not sure why it ever got called "private" to usbcore/hcds.
> I thought the idea was that it should be like urb->status, reserved for
> whoever controls the URB.

OK then how about the following (essentially documentation) patch?
Signed-off-by: NRoman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>