linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: gadget: mass storage: use proper device class in device desc

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1007011004370.1596-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:09:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: gadget: mass storage: use proper device class in
 device desc

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:

> Hello Alan,
> 
> Each time I see the device descriptor of the File Storage Gadget
> I wonder if it shouldn't be set to the real value rather then leaving
> it as per interface.

It should not be changed.

> Is there a reason to leave it as per interface?

See Table 4.1 in the USB Mass Storage Bulk-Only Transport 
specification and Table 3.1 in the CBI Transport specification.

>  Will chenging it to
> the real value change anything?

You mean will it hurt anything?  I don't know; I have never tried it.

> I checked my pendrive and an IDE<->USB adapter they as well use a per
> interface class but maybe it'll be better to use proper call any way?

No.  And it's not a proper call -- it's not even the proper descriptor
valu.  So NAK on this patch.

Alan Stern

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