On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, David Laight wrote: > From: Felipe Balbi > > Sent: 03 October 2017 09:17 > > This keyboard doesn't implement Get String descriptors properly even > > though string indexes are valid. What happens is that when requesting > > for the String descriptor, the device disconnects and > > reconnects. Without this quirk, this loop will continue forever. > > If this is a common/known problem, could the driver detect the > disconnect sequence and avoid reading the string descriptors > on the subsequent reconnect? We currently don't have a way for the kernel to add quirks dynamically, although it could be added. We also don't have any way to know that a disconnect was triggered by an attempt to read a string descriptor. Figuring that out would be rather difficult, IMO. Alan Stern > Then the quirk list wouldn't need to be updated for new id. > > David > > -- 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
