linux-kernel - Re: A standardized way of reporting kernel events to userspace

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Message-Id: <201105300956.50446.oneukum@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 30 May 2011 09:56:50 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...a.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Juergen Beisert <jbe@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: A standardized way of reporting kernel events to userspace

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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