On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Bent Bisballe Nyeng <d...@aasimon.org> wrote: > In the time I have been using libusb there has always been a single > feature that I was missing: The ability to get a notification when a new > device is connected (or disconnected for that matter), and thereby > remove the need for continuous rescans of the usb bus. > > In a specific project that I once made a rescan actually interrupted an > active filetransfer on a MSD. Probably due to a bug in the MSD (some > custom thiny, not made by me) but it still points to the fact tha a bus > rescan is a quite "agrssive" thing to do in order to simply find out if > a device has been connected.
Is this under Windows or Linux? As for the hotplug feature, yet it will be the focus of libusbx project down the road. Ref: https://github.com/libusbx/libusbx/issues/9 https://github.com/libusbx/libusbx/issues/milestones Discussions in libusbx: http://libusbx.1081486.n5.nabble.com/Libusbx-devel-Hotplug-td718.html As for the implementations, you may want to refer to the following two existing implementations. 1) Nokia proposal and enhanced by Pete https://github.com/pbatard/libusb/commits/hp 2) Nathan's proposal http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/Hotplug-API-feedback-td5710944.html http://www.cs.unm.edu/~hjelmn/libusb_hotplug_api_alt4/group__hotplug.html http://git.libusb.org/?p=libusb/libusb-darwin.git -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
