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Re: Passing argument to USB Storage driver | |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:12:07AM -0800, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 7:20 AM, Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why not use libusb from userspace to send these control messages? Why mess > > with the driver at all? > It certainly is a possibility, it would be nice to have all of the > device control related > code in one location (i.e. in the driver). It also seems like over > kill to have a dedicated > process just to do this. > Does anyone know if there is a way to configure the system so that a particular > executable is run upon detection of a specific device (VID/PID)? Look up udev -- it's designed for exactly such a scenario. > > Do these control messages look anything like SCSI commands? Or are they > > real "control endpoint" messages? > They are real control endpoint messages (which I understand would > still be able to > send via libusb). Yes, you can. If they happened to look like SCSI commands, you could have also sent them via the SG_IO interface. Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver Pitr! That's brilliant! Funded by Microsoft refunds. What sweet irony! -- A.J. User Friendly, 2/15/1999
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