From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759085Ab0JFONS (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:13:18 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:54382 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759052Ab0JFONQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:13:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:04:37 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Micki Balanga Cc: Jiri Kosina , "gregkh@suse.de" , "jim.collar@eqware.net" , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: misc: Add N-trig firmware driver Message-ID: <20101006140437.GD19470@kroah.com> References: <6EF693376E00E2458E26FEC229232B128A8D39@Exchange2010-IL.n-trig.com> <20101004011949.GA23855@kroah.com> <6EF693376E00E2458E26FEC229232B128AAE23@Exchange2010-IL.n-trig.com> <20101005124637.GB2943@kroah.com> <6EF693376E00E2458E26FEC229232B128AB242@Exchange2010-IL.n-trig.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6EF693376E00E2458E26FEC229232B128AB242@Exchange2010-IL.n-trig.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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