On 11:18 Thu 06 Oct , Uwe Bonnes wrote: > >>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes: > > Greg> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > ... > >> Why a special handling for some special device that can be done in > >> user space? > > Greg> How can this be done in userspace? > > Well, userspace can't exactly inhibit the loading of the driver for that > interface, but userspace can unload the driver afterwards. NACK I use multiple hardware that use the FTDI chip on the same PC and those hardware have different configuration. I can not offort to unpload the driver at all The kernel need to just manage the uart port of the ftdi in the the serial drvier the other port are manage today via user space tomorrow maybe via other kernel drivers so this need to by manage automaticaly by the kernel Best Regards, J. -- 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
