Re: [Libusb-devel] HID APIs, but mostly kernel driver management

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Orin Eman <ori...@gm...> wrote:

> As for kernel driver management in libusb, you can't remove it, but perhaps
> it should be deprecated...
>

You can not remove it because many existing codes are using it. To
deprecate it and to discourage the use may be a good idea. But
sometimes backward compatibility trumps other things.

The thing is how to replace the functionality? You can use
udev rules to detach the kernel driver. How to dynamically
detach/reattach the kernel driver using udev rules? Since
with the udev rules to detach the kernel driver, you can
not even get the original driver back by unplug and plug it
back in.


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Xiaofan