On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:29:52PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi, Guys:
> 
> Does anyone know a reason other than memory consumption to fetch string
> descriptors from a live device? That Dell semaphore continues to bug me.
> Why don't just read those descriptors once. Are they changing often?

There were reports of devices that changed their serial number and other
string descriptors often, while the device was up and running.  I can't
find those reports anymore as it was years ago, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h


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