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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:04:37 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Micki Balanga <micki@...rig.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, "gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>, "jim.collar@...are.net" <jim.collar@...are.net>, "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: misc: Add N-trig firmware driver On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:47:24AM +0000, Micki Balanga wrote: > > Why does it have to be a driver at all? Why can't you just use libusb > > or usbfs to implement this? > > The driver is used for several debug applications we use and libusb or > usbfs caused us several problem. What were those problems? Did you report them so we can get them fixed? > we also run on several platform. The user space application which > communicate with the driver is common for several OS. Then it would make more sense to use libusb, which works on all platforms, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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