On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:16:25AM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > In addition, they are a much smaller group for which we can hope
> > to get a reasonable testing coverage. A generic white list will always
> > be a fraction of all possibilities.
> 
> not true. The full list of certified devices exists from usb.org. With
> idVendor:idProduct pairs and all. It's just a matter of exposing a
> "compliant" flag on sysfs and having a udev rule that parses the list
> from usb.org and sets "compliant" flag.

Really?  Where is that list, I couldn't find it, but I might be looking
in the wrong place.  And are we "allowed" to use it as a whitelist?  The
last time we tried to do this (taking values from drivers from other
operating systems), I had some uncomfortable conversations with some
corporate lawyers...

thanks,

greg k-h
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