On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:02:26AM -0700, Joey Goncalves wrote: > Hi: > > I was not aware of the libusb support for the PicDem board. ( not for lack > of googling let me tell you ) > that's when I started to look at was involved in writing a kernel driver to > talk to the unit. After > a little digging I discovered ldusb and it's relative ease of handling the > PicDem board. > > From my perspective it is nice to know the board is handled in the kernel > and supported up stream. > As other IDs are created they could possibly be added to ldusb and would > work out of the box. > > We did have to write a seperate application to actually do anything with the > PicDem, but it became > as simple as opening/reading/writing to a serial port which is what I > expected. > > I would prefer to keep the PicDem defined in the kernel. It makes it so much > easier for a new user to > just plug in the board and see it being detected. I don't know what other > pros and cons there > may be for a more advanced user with libusb vs ldusb as I have not worked > with either very deeply. > > If someone wants to use the libusb instead of the kernel driver could they > not just rmmod ldusb at that time > and load libusb instead??
No, you can just run your libusb program, which can unbind the ldusb driver from the device at run-time, so it's even easier :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
