Re: [javax-usb-devel] usbfs permissions

2009-01-30 Thread Dan Streetman
Forgot to CC the list again. :) On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Dan Streetman wrote: >> With the usbfs >> it's not possible to get information about the ports of a hub. > > It's possible - that is how it's currently done. > >> But the sysfs could be used. > > True. I think it would probably co

Re: [javax-usb-devel] usbfs permissions

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Streetman
Forgot to cc the list. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Dan Streetman wrote: > javax.usb keeps track of the usb topology, and last time I checked > read-write access is unfortunately needed to call the > usbdevfs_connectinfo ioctl to get the topology information. This is > why read-write access

[javax-usb-devel] usbfs permissions

2009-01-26 Thread Manuel Stahl
I switched to javax.usb from libusbJava recently and now I wonder why this lib needs write permissions to the usb hubs. For libusbJava it was only necessary to modify the permissions of the device I actually want to access but for enumeration it was enough to have read permissions. Would it be