Subject: Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N
 devices in cdrom mode
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	Frank Schaefer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net>,
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:54:07 -0800
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On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 22:39 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Maybe we can get the kernel drivers to expose the information we need
> > (maybe even an 'eject' attribute in sysfs or something) and then we just
> > have to write udev rules instead of having a whole bunch of libusb junk
> > in userspace?  Would that preserve the policy-always-in-userspace
> > requirement yet keep the code to drive the hardware in kernel space
> > where it really belongs?
> 
> Or put the magic strings in the kernel with a translation hook for the
> eject request ? That would keep policy and method in the right places.
> You ask the kernel to eject, it hides the magic weirdness.

Yes, that would be awesome.

Dan