Re: [RFC v1] USB: core: add USBDEVFS_REVOKE ioctl

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On 26.04.22 04:27, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>
> chiming in here: the hidraw ioctl is independent (as already mentioned)
> but it's basically the same approach and/or intent. The hidraw revoke ioctl is
> "the evdev revoke, but for hidraw", this one is "the evdev revoke, but for
> usb". Not very creative, but at least we can point to prior art and say "this
> seems to be useful" :)
>
> The primary focus of all this are joystick devices (unless I missed some other
> grand plans Bastien had that I'm not aware of), that should put things in
> context a bit. 
>
Hi,

taking the advantages as a given, I must still ask, why this, if it is
so useful,
should be implemented for each subsystem separately. I cannot help but
say that this should go into the VFS.

    Regards
        Oliver





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