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Re: devfs and USB

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Subject: Re: devfs and USB
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:53:30 -0600
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Johannes Erdfelt writes:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2000, Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Johannes Erdfelt writes:
> > > Yup. We use private_data to point to a struct usb_device * or a
> > > struct usb_endpoint_descriptor * for instance.
> > 
> > Really? I just did a scan of drivers/usb/ in 2.3.99-pre6-2 and I don't
> > see you passing pointers to <devfs_register>. In input.c all I see is
> > a conventional driver with basic devfs support added.
> 
> Patches haven't been merged yet. Take a look at the patch I sent
> you.

That only had patches to devfsd. I didn't see any kernel patches.

> > > I'd suppose that keeping them separate would probably the best for
> > > now.  Things will be changing rapidly and I don't want to burden the
> > > rest of devfs or devfsd with USB development for now.
> > 
> > Yeah, makes sense to me. Is there anything you need changed in devfsd?
> > I'm hoping that the recent changes provide you all the hooks you need.
> 
> That's most of it. The only other changes I need are things like
> exporting variables so SYSLOG will work, etc.

OK, I've done that in my tree. I've made a devfsd.h file too.

> > BTW: do you prefer to be Cc'ed or not? I have duplicate filtering, so
> > a second copy doesn't bother me;-)
> 
> I don't have duplicate filterings, but I can delete by hand, doesn't
> bother me much. I'm used to it on the rest of the lists I'm on.

I'll try to just post to the list then, but won't feel too guilty if I
send two :-)

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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