device filtering support

[Xiaofan Chen]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Plante <michael.plante at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The way I see the libusbx process should live for as long ad possible.
>
> I don't see any benefit wrt your isochronous scenario above.  Leaving
> processes running that don't die by any means other than task manager is
> even worse than allowing someone to shut them down through the services
> management console (which most users may not even know about).

If we go with Pete's idea, it could be implemented as a system service
under Windows.

> There's one other issue:  versioning.  I doubt I need to elaborate here
> much, other than to say programs would probably need either the newest
> version running, or maybe one of each version.  After all, the pipe protocol
> could change, and enumeration/hotplug bugs can be fixed.

Does the system service idea solve the versioning issue?

On the other hand, the service idea may create other issues...

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Xiaofan