linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv8 04/13] USB: gadget: mass_storage: moved strings handling code to composite

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Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 04/13] USB: gadget: mass_storage: moved strings handling code to composite



--- On Fri, 8/13/10, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
. 
> ... based on all
> the preceding discussion, I now think the best
> approach may be _never
> to make up a fake serial number.  Use the module
> parameter, if any, and
> otherwise issue a warning and don't have
> a serial number string
> descriptor (even though that violates the spec).


Agreed, and that's what I had asked for.  I didn't
see code faking up a serial ... did I miss such?

If so, let's see a new patch with no faking.



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