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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Micki Balanga <micki@n-trig.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, "gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"jim.collar@eqware.net" <jim.collar@eqware.net>,
	"linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: misc: Add N-trig firmware driver
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:04:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006140437.GD19470@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6EF693376E00E2458E26FEC229232B128AB242@Exchange2010-IL.n-trig.com>

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:47:24AM +0000, Micki Balanga wrote:
> > Why does it have to be a driver at all?  Why can't you just use libusb
> > or usbfs to implement this?
> 
> The driver is used for several debug applications we use and libusb or
> usbfs caused us several problem.

What were those problems?  Did you report them so we can get them fixed?

> we also run on several platform. The user space application which
> communicate with the driver is common for several OS. 

Then it would make more sense to use libusb, which works on all
platforms, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03  7:56 [PATCH] USB: misc: Add N-trig firmware driver Micki Balanga
2010-10-04  1:19 ` Greg KH
2010-10-04 12:58   ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-05  6:59     ` Micki Balanga
2010-10-05 12:46       ` Greg KH
2010-10-06  4:47         ` Micki Balanga
2010-10-06 14:04           ` Greg KH [this message]

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