Hi, > It has not been worked on. There was a lot of discussion, and we sort > of reached a consensus about what was needed, but no patches have been > posted. Could you please point me towards / inform me about what was that consensus? I got lost in the various threads after a while :) >> P.S., note that it would be fine for my usecase if the user has to >> unplug the device, turn it off even >> and replug it after the port is "grabbed" to make sure the device is >> in a clean state. Surely the goal is to "grab" devices. But since these grabs must persist across resets/disconnects/reconnects we would effectively grab "ports", right? I got the impression that this was how vmware and early xen worked. Thanks a lot for your help, Pantelis -- 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