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Re: [patch 0/2] add actuators support

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 06:19:12PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> 
> I am owner of height adjustable desk and naturally, as it has an USB
> interface, I need to controll it from my computer. Started to think
> about what would be the best way, I realized that I need to introduce
> a new driver class in kernel. The reason is a need to have one API
> for all possible kinds of actuator devices (USB, I2C, gpio, etc).

Why does this have to be a kernel driver at all?  Your USB driver should
really just be a simple userspace application (use libusb to have it
work on all operating systems.)

While the idea of a "generic class" is nice, given that there is only
one device of this type out there so far, and it's a USB one, kind of
implies that a generic class isn't needed just yet.

Oh, and it's nice to cc: the linux-usb@vger mailing list for USB patches
in the future :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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[patch 0/2] add actuators support Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-07-17 18:20 +0200
  [patch 1/2] add support for generic actuator devices Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-07-17 18:20 +0200
  [patch 2/2] actuator: introduce Linak USB2LIN cable support Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-07-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: [patch 0/2] add actuators support Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-07-17 18:30 +0200
    Re: [patch 0/2] add actuators support Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-07-17 18:40 +0200
      Re: [patch 0/2] add actuators support Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-07-17 18:50 +0200
      Re: [patch 0/2] add actuators support Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-07-17 18:50 +0200

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