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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1008132019440.23591-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:23:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
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, 13 Aug 2010, David Brownell wrote:
> --- 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?
That code has been present in g_file_storage since the beginning.
There were some patches earlier which moved the code to a different
location. I guess you missed it. The current round of patches doesn't
touch that code.
> If so, let's see a new patch with no faking.
An extra patch or two would be needed to remove the fake-serial
generation.
Alan Stern
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