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

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Message-ID: <84144f020906050822x46c4f9cbmbad7ff6a2942c174@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:22:15 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	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

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<stern@...land.harvard.edu> 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
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