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Re: Merging ugen into the usb stack



On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 08:30:00PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
>  - when libusb takes over controll (as Steffen described) a kernel driver
>    that would have attached (i.e. when the skipping does not happen or
>    the userland application is configured wrong) is detached, so no
>    concurrent access between libusb and a kernel driver can ever happen

To be safe in general -- particularly for storage devices -- this probably
has to depend on securelevel.

Thor


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