From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@enea.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: A standardized way of reporting kernel events to userspace
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:56:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105300956.50446.oneukum@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE02E11.5060007@enea.com>
Am Samstag, 28. Mai 2011, 01:04:49 schrieb Arvid Brodin:
> After I asked on linux-usb for a way for userspace to catch over-current events
> on the usb bus, it turned out that Juergen Beisert had had the need to do the
> exact same thing some time ago. He posted this patch using a uevent to notify
> userspace:
Still, I am not convinced you want to divorce reporting a problem and reacting
to it. The possible countermeasures, like reenabling a port, port reset,
cutting power or using another configuration are specific to a port or device.
Regards
Oliver
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 23:04 A standardized way of reporting kernel events to userspace Arvid Brodin
2011-05-28 0:26 ` Greg KH
2011-05-30 7:56 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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