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mcuee
Hotplug support
It may be good to provide hotplug support.
As of now, libusb-win32 does not support hotplug. libusb-1.0 does not support hotplug under Windows. libusbK has hotplug support.
Please clarify what exactly you mean by hotplug.
Do you mean generating a callback when a new device is enumerated ?
Please clarify what exactly you mean by hotplug.
Do you mean generating a callback when a new device is enumerated ?
Yes, something along that line -- notification about device hotplug event.
libusbK hotplug APIs: https://libusbk.sourceforge.net/UsbK3/group__hotk.html
libusb-1.0 hotplug APIs: (not yet implemented on Windows platform) https://libusb.sourceforge.io/api-1.0/group__libusb__hotplug.html
@mcuee : Quick question: what about fully implementing hotplug directly inside libusb-1.0 (supposing it is possible using win32-like API)? Would there be any downside as compare to implementing the core functionality inside libusb0.sys and only calling it from libusb-1.0? I mean: appart from the fact that having hotplug insde libusb0.sys would allow program not using libusb-1.0 to have the feature as well.
I think typical hotplug implementation is in the user mode side and not on the kernel side. For example you can look at libusbK.
BTW, libusb-win32 API (libusb0.dll) is a superset of libusb-0.1, so it is not compatible with libusb-1.0 API.
@dontech
Please check if this is worth the efforts or not, if not, we can close this issue as not planned.
We can still provide hotplug support to libusb-1.0 in the future I think, so lets keep this one open for now.