From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] drm/usb: add a busid implementation
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:12:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220181200.GW3852@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329754429-5491-2-git-send-email-airlied@gmail.com>
Hi Dave,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:13:45PM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
>
> This adds an implementation for the busid callback so userspace can distinguish
> usb devices better.
Is it really worth it to add such an interface from the old days for new
drivers? I would assume that userspace has better ways to distinguish
devices thanks to sysfs.
Just my 2 cents. If there are good reasons to do so I'm interested in
the reasons.
Thanks
Sascha
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-20 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-20 16:13 initial displaylink kms driver + drm hotplug Dave Airlie
2012-02-20 16:13 ` [PATCH 1/5] drm/usb: add a busid implementation Dave Airlie
2012-02-20 18:12 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-02-20 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/5] drm/sysfs: protect sysfs removal code against being run twice Dave Airlie
2012-02-21 8:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-02-20 16:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] drm/modeset: add helper to unplug all connectors from sysfs Dave Airlie
2012-02-21 8:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-02-20 16:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] drm: add core support for unplugging a device Dave Airlie
2012-02-21 8:59 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-02-20 16:13 ` [PATCH 5/5] drm/udl: initial UDL driver (v4) Dave Airlie
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