From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752234AbaKKHJT (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:09:19 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48385 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752021AbaKKHJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:09:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:07:59 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Lauri Niskanen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: misc: Add driver for ALVA Nanoface Message-ID: <20141111070759.GA16276@kroah.com> References: <1415689506-1755-1-git-send-email-ape@ape3000.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1415689506-1755-1-git-send-email-ape@ape3000.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 09:05:06AM +0200, Lauri Niskanen wrote: > ALVA Nanoface is a USB audio interface device that only works after > receiving an initialization command. This driver does not handle any > actual audio features, but only initializes the device enabling its > audio I/O and physical controls. There are some additional USB audio > features on the device that are currently not supported. The support > for these features may be added later. > > Signed-off-by: Lauri Niskanen > --- > drivers/usb/misc/Kconfig | 9 +++++ > drivers/usb/misc/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/usb/misc/nanoface.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 105 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 drivers/usb/misc/nanoface.c Any reason this can't be a simple userspace program that writes the needed command to the device using libusb instead of being a kernel driver? This seems like overkill for a kernel driver to me. thanks, greg k-h