linux-kernel - Re: Non-enumerable devices on USB and other enumerable buses

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Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:38:48 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Non-enumerable devices on USB and other enumerable buses

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:04:00PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:

> The bus code would need hooks installed wherever the platform wants to 
> do something extra.  This could end up growing to a lot of hooks.  How 
> can the whole thing be done in a reasonable fashion?

I'd expect that we're just looking at hooks around connection and
disconnection here here - if we're looking at much more it seems like we
must be doing something wrong.

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