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... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
