On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Oliver Neukum wrote: > It is always possible to go back to the usb_device if you know > the interface. It is unnecessary to store the device and thus should > not be done. That is not a hard-and-fast law -- the kernel isn't based on Codd's rules for relational databases. This patch eliminates one pointer from one data structure, while adding 8 extra nontrivial computations to the code. The end result is not obviously an improvement. 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