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Subject: Re: Claiming devices has no effect under Linux

From: Thomas Klose <thomas.klose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:30:09 +0200
Am Mittwoch, den 06.10.2010, 16:21 +0800 schrieb Xiaofan Chen: 
> I tend to think it is better to leave for the user to decide to re-attach
> the kernel driver or not. Some user may really not want to use
> the original sio driver.

But is is not libftdi's place to solve this kind of problem. That is
what the module loading mechanism with modprobe, /etc/modprobe.d, et
cetera is for.

If I call a library function like ftdi_usb_open(), I would never expect
it to change my global system configuration. This is just not the Linux
way to do things.


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