On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Greg KH wrote: > > This is ridiculous. To continue adding new entries in the kernel > > driver is a losing game. The best thing I can think of is a sysfs > > attribute file to enable or disable the NVIDIA shutdown quirk. > > > > Do you think that would be okay? > > How would userspace know to write to this sysfs file? The symptoms are reasonably obvious. But the user would have to set it up by hand; there would not be any good way to do it automatically. > We have a long history of quirk tables in the kernel to work around > broken hardware, adding new devices like this shouldn't be a problem. Okay, I'll see about adding a list of device IDs for this. 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
