On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:50:02 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good new is, next version of pilot-link (or possibly this version) > accesses the device through libusb/usbfs, and doesn't touch the kernel > driver at all. I don't know if we should consider this good news. The pilot-link is not the first to do this. Take gphoto2 and SANE for example. I suspect that if we provided decent drivers which did not crash as much, the functional software would not have have as much incentive to flee to the userland. The usbfs is basically an equivalent of iopl and mmap(/dev/mem). Pushing applications in that direction is deeply troubling for me. But never mind me, I'm just whining. I am afraid that writing a ub-style "us" driver for usbserial is 3 years too late at this point. Once Pilot people left they won't be coming back... -- Pete ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
