Tom,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Sailer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:12 AM
> To: Alan Cox
> Cc: Johannes Erdfelt; Dunlap Randy; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [linux-usb] USB 2.3.99 jobs (updated)t
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > This is to kill access to file handles on an unplug event ?
>
> Yes.
>
> I looked at JE's patch in the mean time (I missed it the
> first time), and it looks ok, much better than
> I feared when I thought about marrying devfs and usbdevfs myself.
>
> There is one problem for me though. The USB device I'm developing
> will depend on this functionality,
Do you mean the revoke functionality or the usbdevfs facility?
> and if it isn't going to
> be universally available (i.e. preconfigured in the major
> distributions), the Linux driver will be unsupported.
It seems to me like "kill access on unplug" would be needed by
all USB drivers. Is there something about your device that
makes this more critical for it?
> If as you claimed devfs won't be preconfigured in the major
> distributions, then usbdevfs provides the less intrusive
> solution overall...
>
> Tom
Are you saying that JE's patch isn't compatible with your
USB device & driver?
JE says:
> Nodes are still created, and you
> use the same ioctl()'s, you just use a different name and you
> don't have
> to worry about mounting an extra filesystem to get it.
So is the issue for your device/driver just whether devfs is
there or not?
~Randy
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