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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2008-05-20 16:40:42 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-29 13:59:03 -0700
commit217a9081d8e69026186067711131b77f0ce219ed (patch)
tree7933ca5e141fea2f5fe7595e5e1cc4580bb68488 /kernel/power
parente16362a0c8d90e9adbfe477acbe32b021823fb22 (diff)
USB: add all configs to the "descriptors" attribute
This patch (as1094) changes the output of the "descriptors" binary attribute. Now it will contain the device descriptor followed by all the configuration descriptors, not just the descriptor for the current config. Userspace libraries want to have access to the kernel's cached descriptor information, so they can learn about device characteristics without having to wake up suspended devices. So far the only user of this attribute is the new libusb-1.0 library; thus changing its contents shouldn't cause any problems. This should be considered for 2.6.26, if for no other reason than to minimize the range of releases in which the attribute contains only the current config descriptor. Also, it doesn't hurt that the patch removes the device locking -- which was formerly needed in order to know for certain which config was indeed current. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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