On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 14:48 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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... We are cutting power. So unless they have a battery or are self powered, I don't see how they could retain their mode. But it is a mess. Regards Oliver -- 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
