On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:38 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > The other request is for some way to inhibit loading of in-kernel USB > [snip] Or maybe you mean "binding" rather than "loading". Indeed, sorry about that. > The feature you appear to be asking for has already been added to the > 2.6.32 kernel. For more information see > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=124650199917239&w=2 Looks reasonable for our purposes. One question though - you mention that "The patch does not guarantee exclusive access to these devices; it is still possible for more than one program to open the device file concurrently". Is there a specific reason for this, or would it be something that could still be changed, or perhaps added as an option? And thanks for your informative reply! Michael -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineer 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.thayer@xxxxxxx Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering -- 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
