On Thu, 7 May 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > 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. Why? Doesn't a single fd or an fd per hub accomplish the same thing? Alan Stern -- 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
