cleared early, the solution is to add a new flag (rh_pollable) and use it instead. It gets cleared _after_ the root hub is unregistered. Now that the status polls don't end too soon, we have to make sure they also don't occur too late -- after the root hub's usb_device structure or the HCD's private structures are deallocated. Therefore the patch adds usb_get_device() and usb_put_device() calls to protect the root hub structure, and it adds an extra del_timer_sync() to prevent the root-hub timer from causing an unexpected status poll. This additional complexity would not be needed if the HCD framework had provided separate stop() and release() callbacks instead of just stop(). This lack could be fixed at some future time (although it would require changes to every host controller driver); when that happens this patch won't be needed any more. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman