On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:11:11PM -0500, Craig W. Nadler wrote:
>     I've put together a patch demonstrating how Interface Association
> Descriptors could be supported with a minimal amount of changes the
> current USB stack. When a USB device is enumerated the descriptors are
> parsed by the code in drivers/usb/core/config.c. A list of IADs for a
> given configuration would be stored in the usb_host_config struct for
> that configuration. If an interface is referenced by an IAD then a
> pointer to the IAD will be stored in the usb_host_interface struct for
> that interface.
>     The probe entry point of a class driver could check if the interface
> it's probing is referenced by an IAD. If it is then configure the driver
> to handle the other associated interfaces as well. The probe function
> could also check the "extra" and "extralen" fields in the
> usb_host_interface struct for each interface to get the class specific
> descriptors.
> 
> The code that displays descriptor information in /proc/bus/usb/devices
> will show IADs in the following format:
> 
> A:  1stIf= 0 IfCount= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=03 Prot=00

Why "1stIf"?

And what about sysfs support?  That's more important these days than
usbfs files :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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