Re: A standardized way of reporting kernel events to userspace

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Samstag, 28. Mai 2011, 01:04:49 schrieb Arvid Brodin:
> After I asked on linux-usb for a way for userspace to catch over-current events
> on the usb bus, it turned out that Juergen Beisert had had the need to do the
> exact same thing some time ago. He posted this patch using a uevent to notify
> userspace:

Still, I am not convinced you want to divorce reporting a problem and reacting
to it. The possible countermeasures, like reenabling a port, port reset,
cutting power or using another configuration are specific to a port or device.

	Regards
		Oliver
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