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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-12-22 17:34:26 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-12-22 17:34:26 +1100
commit27a0464a6cb837d3a90b6e69365dfc01cb0dff2f (patch)
tree361f00f4d4ad4c01b6144c52004bee2b948742ad /include/linux/usb/ch9.h
parent4d9d4ebf5de848e3450e23e4db9ac74e23e5daa6 (diff)
parent3d44cc3e01ee1b40317f79ed54324e25c4f848df (diff)
[XFS] Fix merge conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/usb/ch9.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/usb/ch9.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/usb/ch9.h b/include/linux/usb/ch9.h
index 73a2f4eb1f7..9b42baed390 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb/ch9.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb/ch9.h
@@ -158,8 +158,12 @@ struct usb_ctrlrequest {
* (rarely) accepted by SET_DESCRIPTOR.
*
* Note that all multi-byte values here are encoded in little endian
- * byte order "on the wire". But when exposed through Linux-USB APIs,
- * they've been converted to cpu byte order.
+ * byte order "on the wire". Within the kernel and when exposed
+ * through the Linux-USB APIs, they are not converted to cpu byte
+ * order; it is the responsibility of the client code to do this.
+ * The single exception is when device and configuration descriptors (but
+ * not other descriptors) are read from usbfs (i.e. /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD);
+ * in this case the fields are converted to host endianness by the kernel.
*/
/*