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Ian Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23/07/2005 17:26, Joseph Heenan wrote:
> > Greg KH has previously suggested a way to unbind a device from a
> > driver ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/11/189 ) which sounds like it
> > would help - as far as I know nothing like this had made it into the
> > kernel though.
>
> But you're trying to do it from userspace right? Have you tried
> USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT? Have a look here
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.devel/36012> for clues on usage.
That's exactly it, thanks very much. A day's googling had only
pointed me at the blacklisting solution. :-(
For info, libusb exposes this functionality via the
'usb_detach_kernel_driver_np()' function, and it works very well. :-)
Thanks very much for taking the time to answer!
Joseph
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