On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Harald Milz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to run Hotsync (within Wine) in the background to sync my Treo
> against Lotus Notes over USB. The problem with USB is that the device is
> created in the kernel only if the Treo actually talks over USB. Hotsync
> likes to open the device and wait for somebody calling which doesn't work
> because most of the time there is no USB device because nobody's talking
> :-/ 
> 
> So - is there any way to point Hotsync (or any other palm hotsync software)
> to a dummy device that pretends to be there all the time, linking it to
> /dev/ttyUSB1 as soon as somebody is there? I assume that could be done in a
> kernel module but a user space process would be nicer. Can hotplug do that?
> Has someone done that before? 

No one has done this that I know of.  And yes, it would require a kernel
module change.  Good luck,

greg k-h


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