Would someone provide me and the list with the
proposed/alternative/out-there USB driver autoloading/binding
solutions, where they are (URLs), status, etc.?
I know that some are listed on www.linux-usb.org under
the heading "USB /proc & /dev tools". Are there some
others to consider?
Thanks,
~Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:23 PM
> To: David Brownell
> Cc: Johannes Erdfelt; Dunlap, Randy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [linux-usb] [exp. patch] userspace driver binding (and
> follow ingpatches)
>
>
> David,
>
> I will provide feedback if I can. You may need to help
> me get things in a testable state. I'm not a developer,
> but maybe that can be a good thing. I'm probably more
> like your target audience.
>
> I haven't provided feedback up 'til now because I have been
> focused on ORB drive testing. Plus, I thought you were mostly
> looking for technical feedback from the rest of the USB
> development team.
>
> Let me know what I can do to help. If you can provide two
> sets of patches for your alternate implementations that I
> can download from somewhere (or e-mail them to me), that
> would help.
>
> I'll be in Washington D.C. for the National Spelling Bee this
> next week (my wife is on the Word List Committee) and since
> I am on childcare duty part of the time, my availability
> will be sporadic until the first Friday in June.
>
> BTW: Speaking as a user, I am greatly anticipating seeing
> your work come to fruition! I think it's really essential
> stuff.
>
> Thanks,
> Miles
>
>
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, David Brownell wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:47:17 +0100
> > From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Johannes Erdfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Dunlap, Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [linux-usb] [exp. patch] userspace driver binding (and
> > follow ingpatches)
> >
> > > > Johannes's devfs patches for USB have been especially difficult
> > > > for me to decide and no doubt I have taken a long time on it.
> > > > I really couldn't decide.
> > > >
> > > > Johannes and David Brownell had some good discussion
> and some good
> > > > progress with JE's patch, and my thanks to David Brownell for
> > > > experimenting with this patch.
> > >
> > > David was the only person to give me feedback. Thanks
> David. I appreciate
> > > it.
> >
> > For the record, despite all the discussion about wanting a
> USB Daemon
> > to autoload drivers, I've gotten no feedback about the two different
> > implementations I provided ... or, more significantly, the
> shell scripts
> > that they share to handle policies associated with driver
> loading and
> > subsequent configuration.
> >
> > If folk are serious about dynamically loading USB modules,
> I'd expect
> > to see some more discussion on standards for such
> administrative policies.
> >
> > My tentative conclusion is that not many people have gotten
> beyond the "yay,
> > my device works!!" stage to the "Wow, 2.4 does USB
> Plug'n'Play !!" stage.
> >
> > That's a matter of time of course, but I'll encourage more
> folk to put
> > that higher on their priority lists ...
> >
> >
> > > I'll work on splitting out the unrelated features of my
> previous patches
> > > and send them to Randy and the list ASAP. These are
> unrelated to anything
> > > with devfs. I expect this will be sent today.
> >
> > Good. I'd pointed out to Randy that I wanted to see two of them
> > (the ioctl to expose driver-to-interface binding, and seeing all
> > the device and config descriptors) in 2.4 regardless.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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