On Thursday 24 August 2006 2:47 pm, Sam Bishop wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2006 2:49 pm, David Brownell wrote: > > On Thursday 24 August 2006 1:09 pm, Sam Bishop wrote: > > > I also removed the reference to "scanning the filesystem" as a way to > > > detect hotplug events. I can't think of any reason why someone would > > > want to do it that way. > > > > The reference was about seeing what changed, so that e.g. you can > > display a live representation of the USB device tree. Even with > > sysfs, the "exactly what changed" information involves scanning; > > reading /proc/bus/usb/devices is problematic. > > Alright, I wasn't aware of that. Scanning the filesystem just seemed like > more work for the same result. Do I need to modify my patch then, and add a > warning perhaps? How problematic is it?
Just revert to the previous language ... if you want, emphasize that the scanning is to figure out precisely what changed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
