On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Juergen Beisert wrote: > 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? Such things can always be added; feel free to write a patch. But what events will you want to report? Lots of things can happen to a hub besides overcurrents. 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
