From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Paris Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:11:31 +0000 Subject: Re: Detecting USB over-current Message-Id: <20100720131131.GA13728@psychosis.jim.sh> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 23:47, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes > wrote: > > I've been searching if it's possible to receive an event on udev regarding > > over-current on a USB port, but so far have been unable to find anything. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas about how I can do this? > > Udev does not provide anything like this, and is unlikely the right > place to add support for things like this. > > Better ask at the linux-usb list if you can somehow watch devices for > this state. There was some relatively recent discussion about this on linux-usb here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/27802/focus'991 -jim