Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756533AbZFEPNn (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:13:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753256AbZFEPNe (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:13:34 -0400 Received: from netrider.rowland.org ([192.131.102.5]:58830 "HELO netrider.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751988AbZFEPNe (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:13:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:13:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Alan Jenkins cc: Pekka Enberg , Corentin Chary , , , , USB list Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default In-Reply-To: <4A2931F5.1090709@tuffmail.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 17 On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote: > Auto-suspend white-listing would be done on the basis of USB ids > (vendor, product). At the moment it's expected that userspace should > take ownership of it. There's no infrastructure for in-kernel > whitelisting. I think. That's right. We found it was hopeless to try doing this in the kernel so we dumped the whole mess into userspace. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/