Re: [RFC 2/9] usb: gadget: OS String support

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:36:01PM -0400, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24 2014, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> > There is a custom (non-USB IF) extension to the USB standard:
> >
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/gg463182
> >
> > The said extension is maintained by Microsoft for Microsoft.
> >
> > Yet it is fairly common for various devices to use it, and a
> > popular proprietary operating system expects devices to provide
> > "OS descriptors", so Linux-based USB gadgets whishing to be able
> > to talk to a variety of operating systems should be able to provide
> > the "OS descriptors".
> >
> > This patch adds optional support for gadgets whishing to expose
> > the so called "OS String" under index 0xEE of language 0.
> > The contents of the string is generated based on the qw_sign
> > array and b_vendor_code.
> >
> > Interested gadgets need to set the cdev->use_os_string flag,
> > fill cdev->qw_sign with appropriate values and fill cdev->b_vendor_code
> > with a value of their choice.
> >
> > This patch does not however implement responding to any vendor-specific
> > USB requests.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxx>

any updates here ? Should I expect a new version in time for v3.16 ?

cheers

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