USB headache...

From: Daniel Miller (dan_at_invalid.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: 29 Apr 2004 15:18:59 -0500

I'm trying to access USB bulk-storage devices from a user-space
application. I'm using libusb API, and I can open the device successfully,
but when I try to claim_interface, it fails with EBUSY, which I *think*
means someone else already claimed it... I have several somewhat
overlapping questions about what's going on right now, could you help me
with some of them??

- Who claimed the interface, was it usb-storage?? I unloaded that driver
before I ran my code, but I noticed that it auto-reloads. However, I don't
see claim_interface (in any of its permutations) called by that driver.

- Is there some way I can tell the 'world' to not intercept devices on my
sockets, so I can get to them myself?? I'm guessing that this is all
involved in "hotplugging", but I haven't been able to make enough sense of
their documentation to know what to do about that. Hopefully I will
eventually get signed up with their mailing list, but I'm hoping for
quicker feedback here...

Any help with this would be *greatly* appreciated!! I think, if I can just
get the interface claimed, I'll be able to do my other research pretty
easily...

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