On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 22/04/15(Wed) 10:29, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > > [...] > > On a side note, What do you think of using a sysctl instead of an ioctl? > > I guess an ioctl will do but it would make it easy for people to disable > > this at boot time by simply adding the relevant knob in /etc/sysctl.conf. > > Otherwise I imagine people adding usbdevs -p off in rc.local. > > I think it makes sense. Note that we're currently not using sysctls for > USB so I wonder where the node should be placed. hw.usb I guess.
OK, should I have a look at adding the top-level sysctl node and the knob for controlling bus probing? I can then re-work my patch on top of that.
