linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: usb: add basic USB abstractions

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Message-ID: <2025092307-scoop-challenge-4054@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:22:50 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
	Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: usb: add basic USB abstractions

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 04:16:36PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On 23.09.25 16:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Functions like usb_fill_bulk_urb() takes a pointer to a usb_device, not
> > an interface.  Yes, we should fix that, but that "mistake" dates way way
> > way back to the original USB api decades ago.  So much so that I didn't
> > even remember that we used that pointer there :)
> 
> How would we do that? We need to be able to send at least control
> request to devices before we have established which configurations
> or interfaces the device has.

Oops, I thought that usb_dev in struct usb_interface was a pointer to
struct usb_device, but no, it's something else...  So no, we need to
keep that as-is for now.

thanks,

greg k-h