Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755575AbZFEPW0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:22:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751832AbZFEPWR (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:22:17 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com ([209.85.218.213]:43156 "EHLO mail-bw0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751272AbZFEPWQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:22:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=KhVCdeHbH3V21rxOqz0avUqWfMLiGrnXdwtsCVtK9IRg/8jJlz44paXo2ESDcpvNkJ vtmjoBKV6SCclM2JOFV3Is/U3zCSMKRs5di/Fl80fAOoIH++QtKdLG78iTwqQTnH72vc fGd5eLY72YkqXaaFDSKFI5CEdvF1skXX1Aj80= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4A2931F5.1090709@tuffmail.co.uk> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:22:15 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: afd7a54158babfad Message-ID: <84144f020906050822x46c4f9cbmbad7ff6a2942c174@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default From: Pekka Enberg To: Alan Stern Cc: Alan Jenkins , Corentin Chary , acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, len.brown@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, USB list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 26 Hi Alan, 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. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > That's right. ?We found it was hopeless to try doing this in the kernel > so we dumped the whole mess into userspace. :-) I prefer that the kernel takes care of this things because, quite frankly, I usually end up fighting with user-space more than I ever do with the kernel. But don't mind me, I really have no say in USB development. I am just happy to have a working camera and can hand over the laptop back to my better half :-). Pekka -- 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/