Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/5] husb: support for USB host device auto connect.

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Guido Günther wrote:
>   
>> What about /dev/bus/usb - it supports inotify fine on udev?
>>     
>
> Yes it should since it's a regular filesystem.
>   

I was thinking of this too since /proc/bus/usb is deprecated in favor of 
/dev/bus/usb.  If someone was willing to port QEMU to /dev/bus/usb, it 
would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Now inotify based solution probably won't be pretty because we'd have to
> monitor each subdir. ie When new device get added top level /dev/bus/usb is
> not modified, what does get modified is /dev/bus/usb/<bus_num>/ directory so
> we'd have to monitor /dev/bus/usb and dynamically register/unregister monitors
> for each /dev/bus/usb/<bus_num>/.
> Maybe it won't be that bad. If I get a chance I'll give it a shot.
>
> btw Interface to HAL might still be useful in general to monitor other device
> classes that we may want to automatically assign to the VMs. So I'll play
> around with that too (some day :)).
>
> Max
>
>
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