Re: [PATCH 0/9] USB 3.1 initial support for usb core and xhci

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On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 06:40:30PM +0300, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> This patchseries adds the USB 3.1 groundwork.
> 
> USB 3.1 specification includes a new SuperSpeedPlus protocol supporting
> up to 10Gbps speeds. USB 3.1 devices using the new SuperSpeedPlus protocol
> are called USB 3.1 Gen2 devices.
> 
> Devices announce their SuperSpeedPlus capability with a new SuperSpeedPlus
> device capability descriptor included in the device BOS descriptor.
> 
> I short, this series does for
> usb core:
>   Parse and store the new SuperSpeedPlus capability descriptor
>   Allow hosts to define themselves as USB 3.1 capable
> 
> xhci:
>   Check if host hardware support USB 3.1 and define hcd as USB 3.1 capable
>   Create a SuperSpeedPlus descriptor for the roothub that support USB 3.1
>   Support the USB 3.1 get ext port status hub requests which returns
>     more detailed information about port speed, not yet used by usb core.
> 
> latest usbutils source supports parsing the SuperSpeedPlus capability
> descriptor. With this patchseries lsusb -v shows a SuperSpeedPlus
> capability descriptor for the xhci USB 3.1 roothub

Very nice work, glad to see this stuff land in the tree.

greg k-h
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