On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:58:31PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > WHY is all the vendor, product, serial and what not info still dynamic? > How can the info change during the "lifetime" of an attached USB device?
Because the device can change those strings at any time if it wants to (and I've seen devices that do just that.) So we can't cache the data, and must ask the device every time for the string. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
