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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/5] husb: support for USB host device auto
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To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@kernel.org>
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Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Max Krasnyansky wrote:
>>     
>>> Anyway, it's implemented using a periodic timer that scans host devices
>>> and grabs those that match the filter. Timer is started when the first
>>> filter is added.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Again, there has to be a way to get notified of usb device add/remove in
>> Linux.
>>     
>
> Yes the best way is probably registering with HAL via dbus.
>   

I was afraid you would say that :-)

> Do you mind if we do something like that incrementally ?
>   

Yeah, I don't really want to have QEMU depend on dbus so in this case, 
polling would be better.

> ie Merge the current patch then change polling to HAL registration.
> That would simplify testing/patch stacking for me. Existing users are
> not affected anyway since the timer is activated only when new filter is added.
>   

Regards,

Anthony Liguori