Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Alex Butcher wrote: > > >>>Ultimately we may want to remove the FIX_CAPACITY flag. Thanks to the >>>design geniuses at Prolific we're caught in a "damned if you do, damned if >>>you don't" situation. >> >>Is it possible to do something in user space, based on a unique device >>identifier? (i.e. so if a user/admin has one old device and one new >>connected, they can FIX_CAPACITY on the old without doing so on the new) > > > It's not quite so simple. The FIX_CAPACITY behavior cannot be controlled > from userspace.
I'm not wrapping my mind around why - is it because by the time we've reached a point where we can tell the kernel something about that device, it's too late? -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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