[I hate it when people include a long quoted message in their replies 
for no good reason...  Yes, lots of people do it out of sheer laziness 
and it's unfair for me to complain only to you.  But still... ]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Craig W. Nadler wrote:

> After thinking about it, it seems very scary to unnecessarily change so 
> many HCDs. Especially as I have no way to test many of them. I've 
> attached a patch for just the EHCI driver.

Sounds reasonable.

> I also noticed that the port numbers are shown incorrectly for devices 
> in /proc/bus/usb/devices . It has the ports numbered from 0 instead of 1 
> as specified in the USB spec.. The attached patch called 
> "usbfs_port_num.patch" adds one to the 0 based port number before 
> displaying it. Please note that Host Controller still has a port number 
> of 0.

No, you can't do this.  The /proc/bus/usb/devices API has been around 
for a long time and user programs may well depend on it.  We must not 
change it, even though it is bad.

Alan Stern


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