Re: [linux-usb-devel] Additional USB Hotplug Information

[Allen Barnett]

Greg KH wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:25:48AM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> >         dev_t    dev;        /* major/minor */
> 
> Eeek!  No, don't do that!  That will be going away in 2.5 :)

I tried it anyway (except I have 2 int's instead of a dev_t :-) Does
anyone care?

> I've been thinking about this for a while, and I don't think that we
> need to export anything else to userspace right now.  If you want to do
> something like this it can work today in at least 2 different ways:
>         - using devfs
>                 - get the notification of a device change, which starts
>                   the user daemon to configure the specified printer.

>From what little I understand of devfs, this seems to be the most
reasonable solution. Is devfs ever likely to be the default mode of
operation, to warrant developing solutions based on it?

Allen

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