Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:48:15 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add a skeleton module to perform a basic initialization on certain USB devices |
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:05:05PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 08:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Have your program install a udev rule to make it run automatically > > when > > the device is plugged in, and then just file a bug with the different > > distros to have them pick up your program and add it to their > > releases. > > With free services like Github to host the code, and OBS to build > > packages for every different distro out there, there has never been an > > easier time to get programs to distros. > > > > So please just do this in userspace, we don't like to take kernel > > drivers for functions that can be done in userspace. > > That raises a point. If we wish to do port power switching > as a form of runtime PM, we will need to do mode switching > in kernel space. The notion that this can be done in user space > is likely to become wrong as things develop.
Maybe, if a device doesn't remember it's "mode" after sleeping, then it might get messy, it will be interesting to see how that works out over time...
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