SuperUser permission for the Driver??

[shivaprasad javali]

The USB HID device which works along with my application needs a third party
driver(libhid). So I have to detach the device from the kernel  before I
starting using my own drivers. So I need superuser permission for that to
detach the USB device from the kernel. I call hid_force_open() (this is a
libhid() call which detaches the USB device from the kernel and then start
using its own driver)

Hope this makes it clear as to what I am trying to do. :)

Thanks
Shivaprasad

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Jun 24 2008, at 17:35, shivaprasad javali was caught saying:
> > Hi,
> >
> >       I have USB devices (not storage devices, just some usb devices),
> which
> > I can use along with my application on the olpc. The driver for these USB
> > devices are third paty drivers so I have to detach the kernel usb driver
> so
> > that I can use my own driver for that USB device. For this I need to have
> > super user privileges while running my application.
> >
> >      I am new to programming on Linux. Could anybody point me as to how I
> > can give superuser privileges to my driver code.
>
> See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Su
>
> I am not completely sure I grok what you need. Are you trying to load
> a driver via insmod or run some installer for the driver?  Note that
> until two days ago, the USB driver was built into to the kernel, so
> you can't unload it. What specific device and driver is this?
>
> ~Deepak
>
> --
> Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at laptop.org>
>
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