Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:23:55 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Daniel Grech <dgre090@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detach USB Device Driver and Attach it to ugen driver at runtime Message-ID: <C44D95B8-2351-4BCD-BC44-071304EFD4FD@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <CAG167sZd4WBSx--ukEb2RXKq0V0-DZJcMYt176bR1Y-snjkFaQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG167sZd4WBSx--ukEb2RXKq0V0-DZJcMYt176bR1Y-snjkFaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/09/2011, at 23:10, Daniel Grech wrote:
> Hi, I'm using libusb to gain access to raw USB Data from userspace. My
> problem is that this library only works with devices which are treated =
as
> generic devices ("handled by the ugen driver"). I need a mechanism =
that will
> allow me to detach any device specific drivers that are attached to a =
device
> and attach the ugen driver instead. I want to do this without =
re-compiling
> the FreeBSD Kernel. Thanks in advance for your help.
You can access the device via ugen even if a kernel driver has attached =
to it.
I suspect you wouldn't be able to if the kernel driver that did attach =
is in use, but I am not sure.
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