Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 16:46:11 schrieb Alan Stern: > > I haven't yet given serious thought to the API, sorry (probably this will > > happen next week) > > It isn't as simple as it might sound. A program could simply write a > hub name and port number to a file. But what format should we use for > the hub name? And where should the file be located? Maybe it would be > easier if we used the hub's own usbfs device file. But if a program > wanted to claim ports on lots of hubs then it would have to open lots > of files; is that likely to be an issue? If you want to get the ports back when the owner dies, you should use an fd per port. The best way to get that to have a file per port that you can open. 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
