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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC] USB driver conversion to use "struct device_driver"
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:57:28 +0200
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Am Samstag, 10. August 2002 02:10 schrieb Greg KH:
> Hi all,

> The USB subsystem only binds drivers to USB "interfaces".  A USB device
> may have many "interfaces", so a single device may have many drivers
> attached to it, handling different portions of it (think of a USB
> speaker, which has a audio driver for the audio stream, and a HID driver
> for the speaker buttons.)  Because of this I had to create a "empty"
> device driver that I attach to the USB device structure.  This ensures
> it shows up properly in the driverfs tree, and that no USB drivers try
> to bind to it.

Hi,

the probe/disconnect changes are an improvement.
But what do we call a device? IMHO the device in
terms of driverfs is the interface, thus the usb_device
should be seen as a bus, which interfaces are attached to.

	Regards
		Oliver

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