Hi Alan,
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> Auto-suspend white-listing would be done on the basis of USB ids
>> (vendor, product). At the moment it's expected that userspace should
>> take ownership of it. There's no infrastructure for in-kernel
>> whitelisting. I think.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Alan Stern<stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's right. We found it was hopeless to try doing this in the kernel
> so we dumped the whole mess into userspace.
:-)
I prefer that the kernel takes care of this things because, quite
frankly, I usually end up fighting with user-space more than I ever do
with the kernel. But don't mind me, I really have no say in USB
development. I am just happy to have a working camera and can hand
over the laptop back to my better half :-).
Pekka
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