On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:28:18PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> Not that very many people access that field; it's
> ignored by "hub.c" and (as I seem to recall) is
> there only for backwards compat with the very
> earliest USB 1.0 hubs.  (USB 1.1 fixed the bits
> to be all ones.)   In the kernel, only virtual root
> hubs touch that field; and user mode code can
> see it through usbdevfs, but it should avoid it.

ah, thanks for the explaination.

> > And I am the one to blame for that update from the -ac tree.
> 
> Or maybe me, because after I carefully removed that stuff
> from the AC tree for the 2.4.10 integration of usb 2.0
> framework code into Linus' tree, I didn't submit a patch to
> Alan to obliterate it from his tree.  Having two trees just
> sucks totally ... :)

That's why there is really only 1 tree now.  The differences between the
-ac and Linus USB trees are _very_ small.  And I want to see it stay
that way :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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