>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Klose <[email protected]> writes:
Thomas> Am Mittwoch, den 06.10.2010, 15:39 -0400 schrieb DJ Delorie:
>> > If the device has a VID/PID which is associated with a kernel
>> module I > would expect that module to be loaded. If a device is not
>> intended to be > used with sio it *must* use another VID/PID. This is
>> the whole idea > behind the VID/PID system.
>>
>> What about a device which *is* intended to be used by sio, but
>> *sometimes* you want to bit-bang it instead?
>>
>> In my case, I use the FT232R chips as usb-to-serial ports for my
>> MCUs, but to *program* the MCU, I have to fiddle with the cbus pins
>> too. For that task, I need to load libftdi. For normal
>> communications I just use /dev/ttyUSB* via sio.
Thomas> I do not see the problem. In this case you could detach sio with
Thomas> modprobe, rmmod, usb_detach_kernel_driver(), or whatever in your
Thomas> *application*. I am just saying, detaching driver modules as
Thomas> default behavior of a *library* seems surprising to me, because
Thomas> it generalizes this not very beautiful, yet necessary and valid
Thomas> approach.
But rmmod requires being root, while our concept only requires access to the
device.
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