Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] usb: Add usb interface authorization: SysFS part of usb interface authorization.

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Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 16:16 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Opasiak:
> 
> On 06/12/2015 03:42 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 15:22 +0200, Krzysztof Opasiak wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06/12/2015 03:10 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >
> >>> Some drivers (BT, CDC ACM, ...) require multiple interfaces
> >>> The authorization must be given atomically or probing will
> >>> fail.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Please correct me if I'm wrong but this:
> >>
> >> echo 1 > $(DATA_INTF)/authorized
> >> echo 1 > $(CONTROL_INTF)/authorized
> >>
> >> should also work fine even if driver needs more than one interface. The
> >> only issue is that you should authorize interface for which driver is
> >> probing as last one.
> >
> > Exactly. And that information may depend on the driver version.
> > It would be a bad idea to expose this.
> 
> But I see that this could be easily fixed in a quite similar way  it is 
> done in usb_device_set_mask() introduced by 4th patch in this series. 
> Each interface should notify ubs_device if its authorized status has 
> changed from 0 to 1 and device should go through all interfaces (in 
> current config) that are authorized but not claimed and try to find a 
> driver for it.
> 
> Maybe it is not the best solution (all others are very welcome if you 
> have any) because we will be probing all free (and authorized) 
> interfaces each time some interface has been authorized, but single 
> attribute in interface directory to which we can simply write 1 or 0 is 
> way more user friendly. Let's say that we have 3 interfaces, two of them 
> are authorized now, to authorize third one we have to do:
> 
> MASK=`cat authorized_mask`
> NEW_MASK=$((MASK|4))
> echo $NEW_MASK > authorized_mask
> 
> on the other hand if we have authorized attribute in interface directory 
> we simply do
> 
> echo 1 > intf_dir/authorized
> 
> In my humble opinion second approach looks way more obvious and easy for 
> a user, also writing an udev rules which I think will be a common use 
> case will be way simpler.
> 
> Best regards,

The code therefore is available. But as Oliver mentioned not included.
If there is a need for it I could make a sixth patch.

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