On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Lan Tianyu wrote: > But I have an another question. Greg suggested to make the usb port > to be a real device, This maybe a tough task. E.G How to deal with relation among > hub, port and children and other problems. It will take a lot of time to discuss > and investigation. I think we shouldn't worry about any of that stuff. Let's keep the relations the same as they are now. > I wonder it is possible for me to finish usb port power off mechanism firstly > (I have done it for a lot of time.(T_T)) and then make port a real device? > We can keep sysfs hierarchy same. That's up to Greg. > A proposal of making port a real device. Can we divide the whole project into > two steps? > First is to create port devices under the hub device, don't change the relation > among > hub, ports and children. > Second is to deal with their relation. Move the children under port devices. In my opinion the children shouldn't be moved. In some sense they are already in the wrong place: A child's parent should be the hub interface, not the hub device. 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
