On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Chris Frey wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:03:35AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Chris Frey wrote: > > > Instead of ripping out data logging altogether, why not just limit > > > the size to the actual length, and eliminate some of the duplicated > > > logging? > > > > Because logging is already available from the binary usbmon interface. > > Using that reasoning, why not remove usbfs_snoop altogether? Because it reports information not available any other way, namely, the sequence of usbfs ioctl calls. (The last time I looked, strace did not interpret usbfs's ioctl codes.) > usbfs_snoop was useful, and worked, even though it may have duplicated > a feature elsewhere. Now, it is only half as useful. I consider that > broken, and would like to restore it, at least as far as "actual_length" > functionality. I agree that it was too verbose before. If you want to see the transferred data, why don't you use usbmon instead of usbfs_snoop? 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
