Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > While it's nice to have basic support in the kernel, for people using > these devices for sequences / controlling a chain of neopixels / etc > they're going to need a custom kernel with the driver disabled in order > to access it from userland. > > For release users this either locks them out of using syspatch > completely (if they do this by building -stable with custom config - > syspatch won't run at all with -stable), or at least from using syspatch > for kernel fixes (if using config -ef) - so it would be really nice to > have a better way around this before adding more drivers taking over > from existing device support.
I disagree. This unbridled ugen/uhid/usb direct-access via libusb has got to stop. "taking over existing device support" is backwards. We don't expose /dev/pci for X anymore, and we should not do it here either.
