On Thu, May 04, 2000, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Which is what I need to fix - so that you can access them, even though it
> > > wont be anything like as nice
> >
> > So your solution is to create another API?
>
> I'd love to work out how to avoid doing that. However I need to be able to
> use raw USB both on 2.3.x without devfs, and even more so on the 2.2 backport
> without devfs.
>
> The only sane way I can see to do that is to add an ioctl so that I can
> open a device, bind it to a (bus, dev) pair and then share the rest of the
> API.
This proposed API is an extension of the API we were flamed about recently.
I'm almost fully finished implementing a patch which provides a device node
per endpoint which would remove many of the ioctl's.
So, this is a no win situation. Keep support for 2.2 in the form of ioctl's
and get flamed for making everything an ioctl, or move forward and fix the
deficiencies at the cost of making 2.2 support exceedingly difficult.
Once again, my opinion is to not hold down USB with legacy baggage in the
form of 2.2 support.
JE
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