On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > > Alternatively, write the sysfs bConfigurationValue after modprobe.
> > 
> > The disadvantage to that is it requires knowledge of what configurations
> > are supported to be divided between the driver and a user-mode helper.
> 
> That is required in any case. The choice of configuration can be an actual
> choice depending on the desired application, which is unknowable to
> the kernel.

Not quite.  That is, it isn't _required_ that knowledge of configurations
be divided between drivers and helps.  It's _allowed_.  But drivers should
also be _allowed_ to select a configuration all by themselves.

Sorry for sounding like an IETF RFC.

Alan Stern



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