From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] r8152: support RTL8153 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:24:17 +0000 Message-ID: <1389205457.1644.13.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> References: <1388632963-1341-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <1388633110-1435-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <877gai8nqu.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <605671F106F540BA9665A195CACB78A0@realtek.com.tw> <8738l58pyd.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <87eh4l31or.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <749DBDC9792E47BBA5884BEC7CF2D639@realtek.com.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=27Bj=F8rn?= Mork' , , , 'nic_swsd' , , To: hayeswang Return-path: In-Reply-To: <749DBDC9792E47BBA5884BEC7CF2D639-Rasf1IRRPZGoECsaD+WFmw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 20:35 +0800, hayeswang wrote: > Bj=C3=B8rn Mork [mailto:bjorn-yOkvZcmFvRU@public.gmane.org]=20 > > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:22 PM > > To: Hayeswang > > Cc: oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org; netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; nic_swsd;=20 > > linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] r8152: support RTL8153 > [...] > > Exactly the same device, but now cfg #1 is active and a=20 > > different set of > > drivers have bound to the interfaces. This is possible=20 > > because none of > > the involved drivers disable the support for this device at=20 > > build-time. > > Instead they use the available interface descriptors for matching a= nd > > probing supported functions. > >=20 > > End users will of course normally not go around writing stuff to sy= sfs > > attributes like this. Creating an udev rule to select a specific > > counfiguration when the device is plugged is more useful for normal > > usage. >=20 > Thanks for your answer. I would study udev rule first. > Does the udev alwayes exist for all Linux system, such as > Android, embedded system, and so on? They may not have udev, but if not they will normally have an alternate such as mdev. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html