From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
thomas.braunstorfinger@rohde-schwarz.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new NRP power meter USB device driver
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:17:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205311217.11692.oneukum@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120531095304.GA3884@kroah.com>
Am Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2012, 11:53:04 schrieb Greg KH:
> > So it is a chicken and egg problem. A lot of software is now out with
> > depends on this driver and a lot of embedded development environments
> > doesn't provide libudev, libsysfs und libusb. It will also increase the
> > size of the image and adds additional dependencies to the application.
>
> You don't need any of those libraries to do this. What's wrong with
> using "raw" usbfs interactions?
SPI is not limited to USB. If we can get a unified subsystem then the
drivers need to be in kernel space, as some hardware does not allow
a solution in user space.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-29 19:14 [PATCH] add new NRP power meter USB device driver stefani
2012-05-29 23:15 ` Greg KH
2012-05-31 8:47 ` Stefani Seibold
2012-05-31 9:41 ` Greg KH
2012-06-02 7:10 ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-02 12:10 ` Greg KH
2012-06-02 15:43 ` Stefani Seibold
2012-05-31 9:53 ` Greg KH
2012-05-31 10:17 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2012-05-31 12:04 ` Greg KH
2012-05-31 12:32 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-05-31 12:48 ` Greg KH
2012-05-31 14:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-05-31 14:32 ` Greg KH
2012-06-01 13:38 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-05-30 8:10 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-05-31 7:43 ` Stefani Seibold
2012-05-31 8:20 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-05-31 9:21 ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-01 14:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-01 14:34 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-02 5:57 ` Stefani Seibold
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-02 16:18 stefani
2012-06-02 20:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-06-03 5:15 ` Stefani Seibold
2012-06-03 8:46 stefani
2012-06-03 11:48 ` Joe Perches
2012-06-13 0:58 ` Greg KH
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