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 -- 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