On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 06:19:12PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> > > I am owner of height adjustable desk and naturally, as it has an USB > interface, I need to controll it from my computer. Started to think > about what would be the best way, I realized that I need to introduce > a new driver class in kernel. The reason is a need to have one API > for all possible kinds of actuator devices (USB, I2C, gpio, etc).
Why does this have to be a kernel driver at all? Your USB driver should really just be a simple userspace application (use libusb to have it work on all operating systems.) While the idea of a "generic class" is nice, given that there is only one device of this type out there so far, and it's a USB one, kind of implies that a generic class isn't needed just yet. Oh, and it's nice to cc: the linux-usb@vger mailing list for USB patches in the future :) thanks, greg k-h
