On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:27:59PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:14:21AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:03:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Like I say, it's not just MAC addresses that can need configuring this > > > way - it can be other random "you're wired up this way" type > > > information that would normally be figured out from the USB IDs. > > > And all of that should be done in userspace, like all other device > > names, I still fail to see what is so different here from any other type > > of system. > > I'm actually not that fussed about the MAC address use case itself and > do tend to agree with you that that's handlable in userspace but for the > other things that might need to be configured there's a lot of things > that for non-discoverable buses we're currently passing through platform > data so switching to bouncing things through userspace would itself be a > substantial change from other systems. But USB _is_ discoverable, that's my point. > You can't in general rely on the system being neatly abstracted and > while discoverable buses do avoid many problems in this sort of area > there are still things which can only be discovered through reference to > the schematics or similar, especially if you care about the microamps. Again, that's not USB, so it isn't relevant here. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
