linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:13:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
	<acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>, <len.brown@...el.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default

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

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