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From: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BoF on hotplugging - summary
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:14:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-103281967929700@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-103281861328682@msgid-missing>

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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:00, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> - groupings of devices must be delivered
This is an important issue that might be worth expanding on.
Some of the newer devices have multiple logical "interfaces" (read this in a 
loose sense, not meant to equal USB interfaces). Somethimes the device offers 
all the interfaces at once, sometimes you can choose one or the other.

USB example - speakers. There is an audio interface (usually with some 
selection of sampling rates, which you might consider to be a choose 1 of N 
interfaces) and a HID interface (for button controlling volume, etc).

We need some way of selecting the interfaces we want, and associating them 
into sensible groups (so that if I have two speakers, and a multimedia 
keyboard; I can get the volume controls on each set of speakers to only 
control those speakers, and the volume control keys on my keyboard to control 
the built-in (PCI bus) soundcard.

This is really a policy thing, and the kernel is probably provding enough when 
we have topology, but there is a lot of userspace work to be done.

> - driverfs and the input layer must be documented
I'm working on the input layer docs now.

Greg: do you know of any plans to document how userspace should use driverfs?

Thanks for writing this up Oliver.

Brad
- -- 
http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-23 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-23 22:00 BoF on hotplugging - summary Oliver Neukum
2002-09-23 22:14 ` Brad Hards [this message]
2002-09-23 22:58 ` Greg KH
2002-09-23 23:00 ` Greg KH
2002-09-23 23:15 ` Tim Jansen
2002-11-06 18:49 ` David Brownell

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