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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Detecting plugging in of a USB-to-serial device in a running C program?
From: Jason Stahls <>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:13:06 -0400
bburtan65 wrote:
> Let's say you're running a C program you've written that among other things 
> can talk to an FTDI USB-to-Serial device.  However, that device might not 
> always be present.  What's the best way to detect that the device has been 
> plugged in?  Hotplug doesn't seem appropriate or am I not understanding how 
> it works?  A brute force approach would be to periodically attempt to fopen 
> the tty device name but that seems kludgey to me.  And then there's the 
> question of what to do in the C code when the device has been unplugged.  
> Again brute force might be to attempt to talk to if and if you get an error, 
> go back to fopen polling for the device.

This might work,

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-embedded-78/detect-usb-device-insertremove-and-get-device-node-from-c-program-682915/

-- 
Jason Stahls


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