Re: usb: customized USB Hub device doubt

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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 04:41:05PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:20:15PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> We have a customized USB Hub device which has a inbuilt device attached to it.
> >>
> >> By default Linux kernel’s USB Hub Class driver claims the customized Hub.
> >>
> >> I need to Send Vendor Specific command to my USB Hub to enable the
> >> inbuilt device. What is the best way to achieve it?
> >
> > Send it from userspace using usbfs?
> Yes, it is good option.
> 
> >
> > Or write a new hub driver or I'm sure the existing hub driver can be
> > extended to support "custom" hubs, it shouldn't be that tough.
> Linux hub driver(/drivers/usb/core/hub.c) is part of usbcore.ko and it
> is built-in kernel module in our test system.
> "existing hub driver can be extended" : Does it mean modifying the
> built-in kernel module?

Yes, send us patches to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h
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