Hi!
> (after the email time warp)
>
> We've all been working hard on USB device drivers and host controller
> drivers. Now I'm getting concerned about user issues and usability.
>
> Maybe these are distribution issues and not developer issues.
> If so, please tell me. In either case, I think that if we don't address
> them (or some of them), we (the linux-usb mailing list & project)
> will be getting a lot of email from newbie USB users about
> "this device doesn't work" and "the driver module didn't load" etc.
> Examples:
> . /etc/fstab entry to mount /proc/bus/usb automatically
>
> . /etc/modules.conf entries for modprobe-ing USB modules:
> (or is this better handled by Tom Sailer's usbd? Does anyone know
> its status? I'll look at it in a few days, after I return home.)
>
> . using CONFIG_KMOD and request_module() in drivers:
> or is this better handled by usbd? If usbd is close, I'd rather
> see a userspace daemon parsing USB descriptors and
> trying to determine which driver to load then trying to load it.
Well -- newbie users should use monolytic kernels OR
distribution. /etc/fstab is nasty, but people probably can get over
it. (They are adding /var/shm anyways).
Pavel
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