firewire: keep highlevel drivers attached during brief connection loss

There are situations when nodes vanish from the bus and come back
quickly thereafter:
  - When certain bus-powered hubs are plugged in,
  - when certain devices are plugged into 6-port hubs,
  - when certain disk enclosures are switched from self-power to bus
    power or vice versa and break the daisy chain during the transition,
  - when the user plugs a cable out and quickly plugs it back in, e.g.
    to reorder a daisy chain (works on Mac OS X if done quickly enough),
  - when certain hubs temporarily malfunction during high bus traffic.

Until now, firewire-core reported affected nodes as lost to the
highlevel drivers (firewire-sbp2 and userspace drivers).  We now delay
the destruction of device representations until after at least two
seconds after the last bus reset.  If a "new" device is detected in this
period whose bus information block and root directory header match that
of a device which is pending for deletion, we resurrect that device and
send update calls to highlevel drivers.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h b/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h
index df51732608d..8ef6ec2ca21 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 enum fw_device_state {
 	FW_DEVICE_INITIALIZING,
 	FW_DEVICE_RUNNING,
+	FW_DEVICE_GONE,
 	FW_DEVICE_SHUTDOWN,
 };