Re: How to detect overcurrent event from userland

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Hi Alan,

On Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > is there a way to get an userland application informed about an
> > overcurrent event on a USB connector?
>
> Not specifically.  An application can monitor the system log, looking
> for overcurrent notifications.

According to this patch 'http://lwn.net/Articles/366346/' for harddisks: Would 
it be possible to add such a sysfs entry like 'state' to the HUB or its 
interfaces to notify any waiting userland application about changed states in 
the HUB or its interfaces?

Regards
Juergen
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