On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:37:28PM +0200, Valentina Manea wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:36:46PM +0200, Valentina Manea wrote: > >> This driver was previously an interface driver. Since USB/IP > >> exports a whole device, not just an interface, it would make > >> sense to be a device driver. > >> > >> This patch also modifies the way userspace sees and uses a > >> shared device - dealing with interfaces is no longer required. > > > > In what way is this modified? What is now different? > > > > 1. The usbip_status file is no longer created for interface 0, but for > the whole device (such as > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-1/usbip_status). > 2. Per interface information, such as interface class or protocol, is > no longer sent/received. Only device specific information is > transmitted. > 3. Since the driver was moved one level below in the USB architecture, > there is no need to bind/unbind each interface, just the device as a > whole. Please say all of this in your changelog entry :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
