From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:26:38 +0000 Subject: Re: Is it possible for hotplug not to take control over a device? Message-Id: <20060227172638.GA11144@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <4402B5E3.6020202@coit.es> In-Reply-To: <4402B5E3.6020202@coit.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:18:43AM +0100, Jose Juan Iglesias Rebollo wrote: > Hi all! > > Recently I purchased a Canon multifunction printer. Its scanner is not > supported by linux yet, so I've got one idea: use it through VMware. But > VMware cannot take control over it because hotplug already did. "hotplug" des not take over devices, usb drivers take over them. > So my question is: Is it possible to configure hotplug so that it > ignores a specific device? If so, how can I do it, where should I look > for information? I think the latest version of vmware can disconnect the device from the Linux driver it is bound to, but if not, you can do it by hand by either unloading the module, or by writing to a sysfs file called "disconnect" in the driver's directory. Hope this helps, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel