From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Micki Balanga <micki@n-trig.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, "gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"jim.collar@eqware.net" <jim.collar@eqware.net>,
"linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: misc: Add N-trig firmware driver
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:04:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006140437.GD19470@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6EF693376E00E2458E26FEC229232B128AB242@Exchange2010-IL.n-trig.com>
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:47:24AM +0000, Micki Balanga wrote:
> > Why does it have to be a driver at all? Why can't you just use libusb
> > or usbfs to implement this?
>
> The driver is used for several debug applications we use and libusb or
> usbfs caused us several problem.
What were those problems? Did you report them so we can get them fixed?
> we also run on several platform. The user space application which
> communicate with the driver is common for several OS.
Then it would make more sense to use libusb, which works on all
platforms, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-03 7:56 [PATCH] USB: misc: Add N-trig firmware driver Micki Balanga
2010-10-04 1:19 ` Greg KH
2010-10-04 12:58 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-05 6:59 ` Micki Balanga
2010-10-05 12:46 ` Greg KH
2010-10-06 4:47 ` Micki Balanga
2010-10-06 14:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
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