On Fri, 13 May 2016, Felipe Balbi wrote: > We deliver to userspace the part userspace requested, right? So that's > okay. The USB details WRT e.g. babble or host trying to send more data > than expected, needs to be handled within the kernel. The point is that you don't know whether the host sent more data than expected. All you know is that the host sent more data than the user asked the kernel for -- but maybe the user didn't ask for all the data that he expected. Maybe the user wanted to retrieve the full set of data using two read() system calls. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
