linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: interface: allow drivers declare number of endpoints they need

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Message-ID: <1448956437.27886.2.camel@suse.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:53:57 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Vladis Dronov <vdronov@...hat.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: interface: allow drivers declare number of
 endpoints they need

On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 17:09 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > that would loop through endpoints so that drivers do not have to
> > open-code the loop and we indeed need to fix the drivers that
> blindly
> > grab endpoints at fixed offsets and expect them to be there and have
> > correct types.
> 
> Yes, that would work for one single type of endpoint, but lots of
> drivers need/have 2 of the same type/direction, so what would this
> function do then?  Error out?  Hm, that might work, and it would
> reduce
> a bunch of common code, care to make up a patch for that?

Hi,

in that case let us go the whole way. Give drivers a way to describe
what they need that covers all possibilities up to exactly telling the
core what it expects and in which order and numbers.
Actually that would be better in the interface matching code path.

	Regards
		Oliver


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