From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
Frank Schaefer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N devices in cdrom mode
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:54:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257209647.18754.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091102223903.4378e0fa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 22:39 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Maybe we can get the kernel drivers to expose the information we need
> > (maybe even an 'eject' attribute in sysfs or something) and then we just
> > have to write udev rules instead of having a whole bunch of libusb junk
> > in userspace? Would that preserve the policy-always-in-userspace
> > requirement yet keep the code to drive the hardware in kernel space
> > where it really belongs?
>
> Or put the magic strings in the kernel with a translation hook for the
> eject request ? That would keep policy and method in the right places.
> You ask the kernel to eject, it hides the magic weirdness.
Yes, that would be awesome.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-11-01 18:00 ` [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N devices in cdrom mode Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 18:27 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-01 20:02 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 18:29 ` Josua Dietze
2009-11-01 18:35 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-01 20:24 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 20:49 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-02 20:16 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 0:47 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 20:07 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 21:10 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 21:15 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-03 20:33 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 20:11 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 0:51 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 20:10 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 20:18 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 21:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 21:37 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 21:45 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 22:23 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-03 20:22 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 21:11 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 21:42 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-03 0:54 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2009-11-03 10:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-03 16:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 22:47 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-03 23:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-04 3:57 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-04 9:11 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 20:42 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-04 16:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-04 16:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-04 17:07 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-04 17:41 ` Josua Dietze
2009-11-04 16:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-04 17:41 ` Josua Dietze
2009-11-03 10:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 12:58 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-03 20:18 ` Frank Schaefer
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