On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 12:29 +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi, > > Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 09:58 +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:39:47PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > >> > Yes, but we need an API. We can't keep adding to it. So if that > >> > is to be supported, it needs to be defined now. > >> > >> When you say API, do you mean the API the class provides to the > >> drivers? Or did you mean ABI which would be the sysfs in this case? > > > > The API to user space. That is the point. We cannot break user space. > > Once this sysfs API is upstream we are stuck with it. > > yeah, in fact I have been wondering if sysfs is the best interface to That is the discussion we must have. > userspace. I talked with Heikki a few days back about this; I was > wondering if something like what the NFC folks did with netlink would be > better here. I doubt that, because the main user is likely to be udev scripts. They can easily deal with sysfs attributes. 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
