On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:11, Jim Paris <jim@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 23:47, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes >> <luis.strano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I've been searching if it's possible to receive an event on udev regarding >> > over-current on a USB port, but so far have been unable to find anything. >> > >> > Does anyone have any ideas about how I can do this? >> >> Udev does not provide anything like this, and is unlikely the right >> place to add support for things like this. >> >> Better ask at the linux-usb list if you can somehow watch devices for >> this state. > > There was some relatively recent discussion about this on linux-usb here: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/27802/focus=27991 Yeah, that happens quite often, but for many reasons it's totally wrong to use uevents for error reporting or anything not related to very basic device state changes, just because nobody provides any appropriate infrastructure to get errors from the kernel to userspace. :) Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
