From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:22:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803142255.GA11942@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708022306.08410.david-b@pacbell.net>
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:06:08PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> Sometimes when I plug in a USB device I get a dialog asking if I want to
> configure it ... surely it would be possible to have that mechanism also
> consult a database (part of a distro, or on some web server) fpr info
> about the device, and offer the option for to poke at the device a bit to
> see if it behaves. That stuff works for music CDs; why not USB devices?
Not everyone who uses USB devices uses X.
It's a bit difficult to pop up a "unscrew my printer" dialog when you're
on the console.
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 23:56 [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 1:15 ` Greg KH
2007-08-03 1:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 2:46 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-08-03 6:01 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 11:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 11:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-08-03 12:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 12:26 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-08-03 12:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 14:01 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 14:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 14:28 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-03 14:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 14:41 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-03 15:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 14:43 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-03 14:53 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Dave Jones
2007-08-03 14:58 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-03 15:24 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 15:29 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-03 17:47 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-03 15:25 ` Adam Kropelin
2007-08-03 15:31 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-03 15:48 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-03 16:49 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 16:55 ` Adam Kropelin
2007-08-03 15:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 14:37 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2007-08-03 15:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 16:08 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-08-03 17:49 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-03 20:03 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-03 16:29 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 16:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 17:49 ` Greg KH
2007-08-03 17:44 ` Greg KH
2007-08-03 17:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 19:29 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-08-03 19:56 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-08-07 9:14 ` Amit Kucheria
2007-08-03 20:12 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Dave Jones
2007-08-03 21:17 ` Alan Stern
2007-08-03 21:31 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-03 21:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-03 12:34 ` Felipe Balbi
2007-08-03 6:06 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 14:22 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-08-03 14:52 ` David Brownell
2007-08-03 7:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-08-03 14:24 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-03 14:32 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-08-03 14:36 ` [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by?default " Dave Jones
2007-08-03 19:34 ` [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default " Pete Zaitcev
2007-08-03 19:45 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-03 20:04 ` Pete Zaitcev
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