USB doc patch 2
A little more detail on how and when to poll() /proc/bus/usb/devices. Signed-off-by: Sam Bishop <sam@bishop.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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file in your Linux kernel sources.
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</para>
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<para>Otherwise the main use for this file from programs
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is to poll() it to get notifications of usb devices
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as they're plugged or unplugged.
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To see what changed, you'd need to read the file and
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compare "before" and "after" contents, scan the filesystem,
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or see its hotplug event.
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</para>
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<para>This file, in combination with the poll() system call, can
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also be used to detect when devices are added or removed:
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<programlisting>int fd;
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struct pollfd pfd;
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fd = open("/proc/bus/usb/devices", O_RDONLY);
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pfd = { fd, POLLIN, 0 };
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for (;;) {
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/* The first time through, this call will return immediately. */
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poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
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/* To see what's changed, compare the file's previous and current
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contents or scan the filesystem. (Scanning is more precise.) */
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}</programlisting>
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Note that this behavior is intended to be used for informational
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and debug purposes. It would be more appropriate to use programs
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such as udev or HAL to initialize a device or start a user-mode
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helper program, for instance.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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