Re: usbfs, claiming entire usb devices

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Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2009 11:55:34 schrieb Pantelis Koukousoulas:
> In my understanding, the common theme is that there is a need for
> userspace to have a way to "grab"
> exclusively a full usb device (not just an interface) or even better,
> a port. As soon as the grab succeeds,
> the device/port become mostly hidden from the normal kernel
> enumeration mechanisms and also inaccessible
> to other userspace programs. (reads from attribute files may succeed,
> but changing configuration / ioctls
> should fail).

Usb devices have a real struct device whose children are the interfaces.
You should be able to unbind usbcore from a device through sysfs.
In theory. I haven't heared from anybody trying it.

	Regards
		Oliver

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